Despite a rocky start, NASA’s Skylab 4 mission was considered a success and completed on February 8, 1974, when the three-man crew returned safely to Earth. Although named “Skylab 4,” this was the ...

Skylab 4 was the fourth Skylab mission and placed the third crew on board, consisting of Gerald Carr, commander, Edward Gibson, science pilot and William Pogue, pilot (pictured below in this order ...

Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) America’s first space station, Skylab, was launched 40 years ago today. Many of the discoveries made aboard the space station were then incorporated into ...

Ed is 84 now and the Skylab 4 mission began in November 1973 but time hasn't dulled his most vivid memories - the Earth from space, the blazing corona of the sun and the silence of a spacewalk. He's ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, an overhead view of the Skylab Orbital Workshop in Earth orbit as photographed from the Skylab 4 Command and Service Modules (CSM) during the final ...

On May 14, 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. It fell to earth six years later, burning up in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979. Skylab itself was a heavily modified third ...

Former astronaut Gerald Carr, who commanded the last Skylab mission, passed away Aug. 26, 2020 in Albany, NY. “NASA and the nation have lost a pioneer of long duration spaceflight,” said NASA ...

The man behind the microphone when Apollo 12 was struck by lightning while launching from Kennedy Space Center has died at the age of 88. Gerald “Jerry” Carr was capcom (capsule communication) for ...

William "Bill" Pogue, a United States Air Force Thunderbirds pilot and NASA astronaut who served on the nation's first space station, died Monday (March 3). He was 84. Pogue's death was confirmed by ...

Former NASA astronaut Jerry Carr, who led the final mission aboard the first American space station, is dead at 88. Carr’s family confirmed he died in Albany on Wednesday. No cause of death was ...

It's been almost half a century since the three astronauts on board the Skylab 4 space mission famously fell out with mission control. Soon afterwards, reports began to circulate that they went on ...