NASA’s Skylab: Our First Space Station

Skylab's unprecedented success is a tribute to the space activities of the past in that it was a direct product of the technology, design concepts, ground and flight hardware, facilities, and experienced team of people from earlier programs and activities. This vast resource of knowledge and experience, coupled with the commitment to establish a space station of significant size and capability, enabled NASA to produce exciting results in engineering, physics, astronomy, earth resources, bio...