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Skylab

Skylab was a space station launched and operated by NASA, the space agency of the United States. Skylab orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, and included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems. It was launched unmanned by a modified Saturn V rocket, with a mass of...

Timeline of Events

1973

5.14.1973

''Skylab'', the United States' first space station, is launched.

1974

2.8.1974

After 84 days in space, the crew of the first American space station Skylab returns to Earth.

1979

7.11.1979

America's first space station, ''Skylab'', is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.