Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 11, 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth as it burned up in the atmosphere, ...

The mission of Skylab, the United States’ first space station, ended July 11, 1979, with a show worthy of Independence Day fireworks, scattering debris over a wide swath of the Indian Ocean and the ...

1979: The Skylab space station re-enters Earth's atmosphere after six years in orbit. It is perhaps the most highly anticipated return of any spacecraft ever, save Apollo 13. The first U.S. space ...

On 28 July 1973, the Skylab 3 crew of Alan Bean, Jack Lousma, and Owen Garriott lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, bound for the Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit.

UNITED STATES - APRIL 24: This spectacular view of Skylab, clearly showing the sun shield, was taken by the crew of Skylab 4, the last manned mission to the space station, as they returned home.

After the final Apollo moon landing, NASA repurposed surplus Apollo and Saturn V rocket hardware for the Skylab space station program. Nine astronauts inhabited Skylab for a total of 171 days between ...

What happens when a space station falls out of the sky? The world got a preview back in 1979 with the end of Skylab, the United States' first space station. NASA had placed Skylab into Earth orbit six ...

NASA launched Skylab, America’s first space station, into space 50 years ago in May 1973, and it would make space history in ways its builders wanted and ways they would have gladly missed. From the ...

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 ...