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 ...

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

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 ...

On May 14, 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. Skylab orbited Earth for six years and supported three crewed missions during which astronauts conducted hundreds of ...

Standing at 363 feet tall and weighing around 6.2 million pounds, the Saturn V rocket successfully launched 13 missions, beginning with Apollo 4 in 1967 and ending with Skylab, America's first ...

The Artemis programme and others aim to send humans to the Moon and, eventually, to Mars. Innovations in health care that support the mission crew could also benefit people at home.

Since the crew of Skylab 4 first celebrated Thanksgiving 1973 in low Earth orbit, NASA has tried to provide holiday favorites, but even as food preparation science has improved, the taste just hasn't.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are finally back on Earth after spending more than nine months in orbit on the International Space Station, splashing down off the coast of Florida ...