Mutiny in Space: Why These Skylab Astronauts Never Flew Again In 1973, it was the longest space mission — 84 days in the stars. But at some point the astronauts just got fed up ...

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

On Dec. 28, 1973, or 42 years ago Monday, one was delivered by three U.S. astronauts orbiting the globe in NASA’s Skylab -- a one-day sit-down strike in space.

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 ...

This review highlights how the unique stressors of space travel, radiation, microgravity, and circadian disruption impact ...

In the summer of 1973, astronauts Alan Bean, Jack LMA, and Dr. Owen Garriott conducted a nearly two-month mission aboard Skylab, the first space laboratory. Dr. Garriott, a scientist pilot ...

Astronauts flying aboard the ISS today face fewer constraints than Skylab crews did. The ISS recycles most of its water, for instance, and regular cargo resupply missions deliver food to the ...

Nine astronauts inhabited Skylab for a total of 171 days between May 1973 and November 1974. Skylab itself fell back to Earth on June 11, 1979. Until the mid-20th century, ...

If astronauts had become stranded on the Skylab Orbital Workshop, NASA had a plan, and in July 1973 it came very near to launching its plan. Beyond Apollo blogger and historian David S. F. Portree ...

A diagram of the shower aboard Skylab during the Saturn Workshop mission in the 1970s. | NASA // Public Domain To make the astronauts feel more at home in orbit, Skylab—the first U.S. space ...