A historic NASA spacecraft will soon leave the Smithsonian for the Sooner State. The Apollo command module that was flown by the third and last astronaut crew to live on board the United States' first ...

Despite a rocky start, NASA’s Skylab 4 mission was considered a success and completed on February 8, 1974, when the three-man crew returned safely to Earth. Although named “Skylab 4,” this was the ...

Skylab 4 was the fourth Skylab mission and placed the third crew on board, consisting of Gerald Carr, commander, Edward Gibson, science pilot and William Pogue, pilot (pictured below in this order ...

Click to open image viewer. This is the Skylab 4 Command Module, which served as the crew cabin for going to and from Skylab, the first U.S. space station. Skylab 4, the third and last of the Skylab ...

Ed is 84 now and the Skylab 4 mission began in November 1973 but time hasn't dulled his most vivid memories - the Earth from space, the blazing corona of the sun and the silence of a spacewalk. He's ...

Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) America’s first space station, Skylab, was launched 40 years ago today. Many of the discoveries made aboard the space station were then incorporated into ...

On May 14, 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. It fell to earth six years later, burning up in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979. Skylab itself was a heavily modified third ...

It's been almost half a century since the three astronauts on board the Skylab 4 space mission famously fell out with mission control. Soon afterwards, reports began to circulate that they went on ...