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 ...

Between 1973 and 1974, astronauts aboard Skylab 4 celebrated the first Thanksgiving and New Year’s in space. The crew built a Christmas tree from the tins that carried their holiday dinner.

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.

The cost to bring home a pair of stranded astronauts that have spent most of a year in space aboard the ... (1986 to 2001), China’s Tiangong-1 (2011 to 2018) and NASA’s Skylab (1973 to 1979 ...

Skylab 4 astronauts Edward G. Gibson, left, William R. Pogue, and Gerald P. Carr demonstrate eating aboard Skylab during Thanksgiving in 1973. NASA.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station may be far from family and friends this Thanksgiving, but will still enjoy a festive meal. The SpaceX CRS-31 supply mission that docked Nov. 5 ...

The astronauts on the I.S.S. — including two who were scheduled to return months ago — held a zero-gravity cookie-decorating contest and built a reindeer from storage bags.

Astronauts still would be aboard as it is gradually lowered. ... Skylab, came crashing down in 1979, with debris raining down onto Australia and the surrounding Pacific.

NASA astronauts Don Pettit (left) and Suni Williams, flight engineer and mission commander, respectively, for the space agency’s Expedition 72, are two of seven International Space Station (ISS ...