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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Space & Spaceflight Skylab, the First U.S. Space Station, Changed What We Thought Was Possible in Orbit Launched 50 years ago this week, Skylab set the stage for much more ambitious missions.

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 ...

While Skylab's Saturn V launch vehicle sat at LC-39A, the neighboring pad, LC-39B, was mounted with a smaller Saturn IB rocket carrying the lab's awaiting crew.

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.

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 ...

View Nasa. Beautiful view of the lift-off of the modified Saturn V rocket, carrying the SKYLAB laboratory into Earth orbit from launch pad 39A at Cape Kennedy, Florida, on May 14, 1973. (14) By NASA; ...

Object Details Manufacturer Revell, Inc. Summary This Saturn V model kit was built and sold by Revell, Inc. The Saturn V was the world's largest operational launch vehicle and first launched a piloted ...