Skylab set the stage for 50 years of scientific advances, but America's first space station is mostly remembered for the ...

He was the science-pilot for Skylab 3, the second crewed Skylab mission, and was in orbit from July 28 to Sept. 25, 1973. His crewmates were Commander Alan Bean and Pilot Jack Lousma.

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The longest human space flight up to that time ended with the splashdown of the Skylab 3 crew of Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott, and Jack R. Lousma on September 25, 1973. The ...

"Houston, Skylab 2 [here], we fix anything," mission commander Pete Conrad said enthusiastically, to ground controllers as a Saturn 1B carried his Apollo capsule and two other astronauts, Joseph ...

Dubbed Skylab in February 1970, a full-sized mockup was completed even before the final three Apollo missions, 18, 19, and 20, were canceled by Congress.

But the solar panels and sunshade did not deploy properly so the crew’s departure was delayed. It was not until May 25, 1973 that the crew went into space with a new mission: to repair Skylab.

Joe flew aboard Skylab 2, the first-ever manned mission to the Skylab space station, where he served as the science pilot and the first-ever U.S. doctor in space.

On this date, Jan. 4, 1970, NASA officially canceled the Apollo 20 mission and transferred the Saturn V rocket that would have sent astronauts to the moon to the Skylab mission. NASA, in a budget ...