In the 1970s, America’s first space station allowed three crews of astronauts to conduct hundreds of experiments. Skylab, however, is mostly remembered for the frenzy surrounding its return to Earth in 1979. The abandoned lab plunged to Earth over ...

Skylab IV splashed down on this day in 1974, ending the last mission to America’s first space station. They were glad to get home. The crew of Skylab IV — William Pogue, Gerald Carr and Edward Gibson — became famous for the sheer amount of ...

Back on Earth after what was then the longest human spaceflight in history, William “Bill” Pogue remarked on the autumn foliage around his house. “It’s so beautiful,” he told his sister, Betty Pogue Prentice. “Really?” Prentice asked, rather ...