the Skylab space station, and later the Space Shuttle. Currently NASA is supporting the International Space Station and developing new Ares I and IV launch vehicles. In addition to the space ...

Joe flew aboard Skylab 2, the first-ever manned mission to the Skylab space station, where he served as the science pilot and the first-ever U.S. doctor in space. Skylab celebrated the 50th ...

A drama starring Radha Mitchell and Jesse Spencer set in 1979 Perth lifts the lid on a fascinating time for the city, ...

Footage of the crew and views outside the Tiangong space station in these highlights. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ...

Space Center Houston unveils a 50-year-old time capsule from Skylab, revealing untouched artifacts from America's first space ...

NASA and Elon Musk’s company in July outlined the plan to burn the space station up on reentry and plunge what’s left into ...

Mir was the Soviet Union’s most successful space station attempt. Skylab was supposed to reenter entirely over the Indian Ocean, but scattered debris across Australia as well. The United States ...

On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. Despite a troubled start to its life, Skylab pioneered long-duration spaceflight ...

taken by the crew of Skylab 4, the last manned mission to the space station, as they returned home. Skylab 4 Astronauts Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson and William Pogue lived aboard Skylab from 16th ...

Skylab remained in orbit for six years ... In 1974, the Soviet Union launched the Salyut 3 space station, code-named Almaz, which secretly carried a 23-mm Nudelmann aircraft cannon.

Deorbiting can be either a controlled or uncontrolled process. For example, a prior U.S. space station, Skylab, crashed to Earth following a largely uncontrolled deorbit in July 1979. An ...

Unlike Skylab, which had an enclosed shower ... flight programs to plan sleeping and sanitary arrangements for the Space Station that will be more like those on Earth.