The Skylab 3 crew had left a surprise for them by stuffing three brown flight suits, attaching some stuffed paper bags for heads and leaving them on Skylab's lower deck.

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville was a big part of the Skylab team from the beginning. Astronauts and engineers spent a total of 171 days practicing how to work in zero gravity ...

"Home Beyond Earth" includes garments from all of the different types of space stations, including NASA astronaut Ed Gibson's flight suit that he wore as a Skylab 3 (SL-4) crew member.

The exhibit features large-scale photographs of spacesuits through the ages, conveying a “visual timeline” of their development in addition to each suit’s unique “personality,” according ...

A close-up view of the Skylab space station cluster photographed against a black sky (NASA). Then Skylab orbited, inert, from February 1974 until March 1978, when NASA flight controllers began the ...

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 ...

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.

Skylab launched May 14, 1973 and orbited the Earth 2,249 times before it fell to the Earth’s surface, landing in a remote part of Australia on July 11, 1979.