Skylab set the stage for 50 years of scientific advances, but America's first space station is mostly remembered for the ...

Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launchpad 39B at the ...

The final result was the Saturn V, the rocket that would power all six successful moon landings and the launching of the Skylab space station between 1969–1973.

Skylab’s rocky start Skylab separated from the Saturn rocket on time and deployed its Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) and a suite of X-ray, visible-light, and ultraviolet solar physics instruments.

Disaster strikes The first mission started on time, on May 14, 1973, when a modified Saturn V rocket had taken the space laboratory, without a crew on its way toward Earth orbit.

The Apollo program was not yet over, and, though the Saturn IB launches to the Skylab orbital workshop were complete, at least one more use of the rocket was planned for the joint U.S. and Soviet ...

A rocket center report from 2022 described the Saturn 1B as an “overlooked workhorse of the Apollo program.” Among its tasks was as the launch vehicle for the Skylab mission that is ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - 50 years ago America’s first space station, Skylab, lifted off into space. To celebrate the anniversary, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center is hosting a series of free events ...

After the completion of the Apollo program, Saturn 1B launched three missions to the Skylab space station in 1973. The Saturn 1B also was used for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.

The Saturn V rocket was part of the technology that made the Apollo mission successful and played a pivotal role in launching Apollo 11 to the Moon in 1969, marking a turning point in human history.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Alabama's 2024 American Innovation dollar coin will honor NASA's historic Saturn V rocket ...

The United States Mint is getting ready to put a rocket in your pocket. Alabama chose NASA's historic Saturn V to appear on a $1 coin as its example of American Innovation.