On Feb. 8, 1974, the last crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth. Skylab was the first and only American space station, and it supported three crewed missions. The third and final mission ...

As a dedicated station, the Dry Workshop – which would later evolve into Skylab – would provide more space for astronauts, be able to carry more equipment, and not require as much of their ...

Skylab also had a small refrigerator/freezer and for the first time, astronauts ate real ice cream. By the way, freeze-dried ice cream isn’t real astronaut food. Although the stuff was developed ...

In 1979, the American space station, Skylab, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. Large fragments hit SW Australia instead of the Indian Ocean. Originally broadcast 11 July 2013.

NASA traces the first crew celebration of Thanksgiving to 1973 when astronauts on the Skylab space station marked the holiday. That crew didn’t have any special Thanksgiving-themed food items ...