On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. Despite a troubled start to its life, Skylab pioneered long-duration spaceflight, and fifty ...

Keywords Skylab, Apollo Command Module, biomedical experiments, weightlessness, cardiovascular studies, exercise capacity, sleep patterns, waste management, astronaut health, long-duration ...

Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled ...

On March 24, 1975, the last in a long line of super successful Saturn rockets rolled out from the vehicle assembly building ...

How Do We Rule The Universe? 10, 9, 8, 7: Four Apollo missions Space Flight In 1979, the American space station, Skylab, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. Large fragments hit SW Australia instead ...

acting as space commander in the second manned Skylab mission, which set a record for space flight of 59 days. See more programmes and clips about the Apollo Moon landings.