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.

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 ...

Two complete Skylab space stations were manufactured and equipped for flight, and one was launched into Earth orbit in May 1973. After the Skylab program was canceled as effort shifted to Space ...

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 ...

Skylab 4’s stay aboard the station would be the longest, at over 83 days. The crew returned to Earth on Feb. 8, 1974, after which no more astronauts would set foot aboard the Skylab station.

Skylab 2 Flight Surgeon Joe Kerwin attended the unveiling and told Spana that one of the medical kits was fully intact with no missing items. "His eyes really lit up when he saw that," Spana said.

While Skylab had an Earth orbit of only 268 miles, completing an orbit every 93 minutes, Gateway will have a highly elliptical orbit around the moon that will range from 930 miles to 43,000 miles ...

Skylab was a U.S. space station launched into low Earth orbit in May 1973. Three different three-man crews occupied the orbital laboratory until February 1974. Skylab was equipped with several tool ...