The Skylab space station had a few good years in space — fewer than NASA wanted and not as good as NASA wanted — before falling to Earth in a rain of debris. Courtesy NASA 1979: The Skylab space ...

In 1979, NASA knew that the 78 1/2-ton Skylab was starting to deteriorate and would re-enter the earth atmosphere. They knew it would break apart and that some 25 tons would fall to Earth but they ...

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 ...

Forty years ago, in July 1979, the Skylab space station fell in pieces upon re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. Debris was scattered over the Indian Ocean and western Australia, but even Richmonders ...

NASA celebrates the 40th anniversary on Tiuesday of the launch of Skylab, America's first space station, but you might be surprised where this icon of U.S. human spaceflight ended up. After hosting ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. Looking to the skies in July 1979, Canadians and the world were on alert for debris from an American space station that was coming ...

Thursday is the 40th anniversary of Skylab falling back to Earth. While most people know it as America’s first manned space station, its influence extends much further. Skylab launched May 14, 1973 ...

Clarification: Scott Barley is no longer an on-air personality for the radio station. A little piece of Barstow will be present in the small town of Esperance, Australia, this weekend, thanks to local ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After the final Apollo moon landing, NASA repurposed surplus Apollo and Saturn V rocket hardware ...

July 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1804, U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr killed longtime political foe Alexander Hamilton, the first treasury secretary, in a duel at Weehawken, N.J. In 1847, ...

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