The ISS interior looks like what it is, where scientists do important work. Skylab still felt like people of tomorrow living in space.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 11 color slides, 23 color prints, 49 digital scans, and two slide presentations of drawings all relating to early interior design concepts of the Skylab ...

Rising temperatures — 179 degrees Fahrenheit (82 degrees Celsius) on Skylab’s hull, 100.4 F (38 C) in its habitable interior — looked set to double.

Flight controllers moved Skylab's secondary solar panels to face the sun to provide as much electricity as possible, but because of the loss of the debris shield this caused the station's interior ...

Skylab, the first U.S. space station, remains the largest station launched into orbit in one piece. When its last crew departed in February 1974, it still had plenty of oxygen, water, and other ...

Flight controllers moved Skylab's secondary solar panels to face the sun to provide as much electricity as possible, but because of the loss of the debris shield this caused the station's interior ...

The skylab will be restored before the Explorer's Ball on Jan. 31, 2013. It will be cleaned, resurfaced and have a renewed interior. The event, which is already sold out, will feature eight of the ...

Skylab was the United States' first space station and represented the nation's first effort at long-term human space missions.

U.S. military astronauts commanded all three of Skylab's crewed missions that took place in 1973 and 1974 and accounted for seven of its nine crew members.The Apollo 12 commander who'd walked on ...

But Skylab 3, the third and final crew to fly aboard the space station, lasted 84 days, launching on November 16, 1973 and returning to Earth on February 8, 1974.

Skylab, the American space station and laboratory, was launched into space on May 14, 1973, starting a six-year journey that recorded various in-space firsts and discoveries. Operated by NASA, Skylab ...