On July 11, 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth as it burned up in the ...

Skylab was, therefore, the second space station to be crewed in orbit, but as of 2023 it remains the only crewed station to have been operated exclusively by the United States.

An uncontrolled deorbit is cheaper (essentially free) but runs the risks of impacting population centers, potentially injuring people, or damaging buildings — some parts of Skylab landed in ...

Skylab was the United States' first space station and represented the nation's first effort at long-term human space missions.

SkyLab is challenging the cloud status quo with its orchestration platform, which allows telcos and enterprises to seamlessly manage workloads across multiple cloud providers.

NASA's first space station taught humans lots about living in space, including that bath wipes are superior to showers.

Space & Spaceflight Building a Spacecraft to Deorbit ISS ‘Not Optional,’ Claims NASA Safety Panel Failure to properly dispose of the space station could result in catastrophe, the panel warns.

NASA launched Skylab, America’s first space station, into space 50 years ago in May 1973, and it would make space history in ways its builders wanted and ways they would have gladly missed ...

The announcement came on the same day that the crew of the ISS had to unexpectedly board their capsules to wait for the outcome of a near collision with space debris from a satellite.

After its retirement in 2030, the nearly one-million-pound space station will become—by far—the largest object ever brought back from space. Here's how NASA plans to do it safely.