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 ...

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The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting these pieces back together and re-tracing the Skylab program back to its very conception reveals ...

In 1979, when the US space station Skylab was predicted to fall to earth somewhere in Western Australia, Bill King pounced on it as a tourism opportunity. Bill, a tour operator who’d forged a ...