Click to open image viewer. This Indium Antimonide crystal sample was produced in a materials processing experiment aboard Skylab, a U.S. space station occupied by astronauts in 1973-1974. A scientist ...

Click to open image viewer. This case of small chambers may have been a training unit for a Skylab crystal growth experiment. It is marked "Non-Flight," and it includes a small wrench. Crystal growth ...

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 ...

The Skylab Medical Program involved a series of missions where astronauts conducted extensive biomedical experiments in a weightless environment. The crew launched in an Apollo Command Module and ...

Space stations, big metal tubes in low-Earth orbit pressurized to roughly the same atmospheric pressure you'd find on sea level so a bunch of squishy, fragile meat sacks can conduct science ...

The film documents the Skylab mission, focusing on the challenges faced during the first crewed mission to the space station. After an unsuccessful initial launch and significant technical ...