On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. Despite a troubled start to its life, Skylab pioneered long-duration spaceflight ...

Skylab was the first U.S. space station, flying above the Earth's surface from 1973 to 1979. Three crewed Skylab missions ...

Deorbiting can be either a controlled or uncontrolled process. For example, a prior U.S. space station, Skylab, crashed to Earth following a largely uncontrolled deorbit in July 1979. An ...

Skylab was the first United States manned space station, launched on May 14, 1973.Credit: Archive “I was concerned to learn that fragments of Skylab may have landed in Australia,” Carter wrote ...

Unlike Skylab, which had an enclosed shower ... flight programs to plan sleeping and sanitary arrangements for the Space Station that will be more like those on Earth.

In 1979, the American space station, Skylab, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. Large fragments hit SW Australia instead of the Indian Ocean. Originally broadcast 11 July 2013.

They said they thought the … second stage of the Saturn-5 which launched the Skylab space station in May 1973 and since then has been orbiting the earth — came down at about 0632 GMT.