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Command Module, Skylab 3

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Skylab 3 Command and Service ...
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50 years ago, Skylab launched into orbit. See what it meant to an astronaut on a space station now.

Stephen Bowen remembers seeing Skylab fly overhead. At eight years old, Bowen's experience watching the United States' first space station cross the night sky fueled his interest in spaceflight.
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50 Years Ago: NASA's Skylab Wrote the Playbook for the ISS

Space stations, big metal tubes in low-Earth orbit pressurized to roughly the same atmospheric pressure you'd find on sea level so a bunch of squishy, fragile meat sacks can conduct science ...
Houston Chronicle

Space Center Houston opens Skylab training locker after 50 years, numerous artifacts found

Visitors to Space Center Houston have walked past a Skylab training model storage locker during trips to the museum for years. Little did they know there were still items in it that hadn't seen the ...
Astronomy

Remembering Skylab’s launch, 50 years on

On May 14, 1973, watched by 25,000 rapt spectators, the last Saturn V patiently sat on Launch Pad 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Atop the rocket was Skylab, the biggest, heaviest single ...
Gizmodo

Skylab, the First U.S. Space Station, Changed What We Thought Was Possible in Orbit

Parked in low Earth orbit and traveling around our planet at 16,000 miles per hour (25,750 kilometers per hour), Skylab allowed for detailed observations of the Earth and Sun, acted as a medical lab, ...
UPI

50 years later, Skylab remembered as major force in space exploration

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. May 25 (UPI) Fifty years ago, on May 25, 1973, three NASA astronauts were launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to spend a month aboard Skylab, America's first space ...