Nearly 46 years after the Skylab space station caused a sonic boom as it blazed a kaleidoscopic trail across the WA sky, ...

At its simplest, in-space manufacturing refers to anything made in space that can then be used on Earth or in space itself.

For the Skylab deorbit, I invited all my friends and ... Since this involved an object in orbit, and since we were, for the most part, Air Force people, the trooper chose to ask the base to ...

Garriott and his Skylab 3 crewmates ... While the station was in orbit, Garriott, Bean, and Lousma tumbled around the lockers, using feet and hand thrusts to ricochet along the circumferential ...

Skylab was launched as the first working space research station in 1973, but its orbit decayed by 1978. As the 100-ton station plummeted out of orbit, NASA engineers tried to guide it over the ...

In March, the United States launched Pioneer 4 toward the moon, but it too missed and fell into solar orbit. Finally ... including Skylab, the Soviets never attacked any of them.

Just think! Skylab made a complete orbit of the earth every 90 minutes, going at 17,000 miles an hour. It had been whizzing around since 1973. Once it started its re-entry, its temperature would ...

Unlike Skylab, which had an enclosed shower, Shuttle travelers can only take sponge baths in space. Water droplets float about in weightlessness, creating a potential hazard for electrical equipment.