While Skylab's Saturn V launch vehicle sat at LC-39A, the neighboring pad, LC-39B, was mounted with a smaller Saturn IB rocket carrying the lab's awaiting crew.

On May 14, 1973, watched by 25,000 rapt spectators, the last Saturn V patiently sat on Launch Pad 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Atop the rocket was Skylab, the biggest, heaviest ...

NASA launched the Skylab space station 40 years ago Tuesday, turning the modified third stage of a Saturn V moon rocket into Amerca's first off-Earth astronaut abode. Now, a team of researchers ...

The final Saturn V launch in 1973 put Skylab, America’s first space station, in orbit. The Saturn V at Johnson had been exposed to the elements for more than 20 years while on display.

Mounted where the third stage of a Saturn V would normally go in the stack, and nestled in a payload shroud, Skylab was in trouble right from the start.

Skylab was launched into Earth orbit by a Saturn V rocket on May 14, 1973. Three, three-man crews occupied the Skylab workshop for a total of 171 days and 13 hours.

Before the International Space Station existed, before U.S. astronauts shared space on Russia's space station Mir, America's first home in Earth orbit was Skylab. The converted upper stage of a ...

It had a maximum thrust of 7.6 million pounds. According to NASA, the Skylab launched was the end of the Saturn V lifespan. “The last Saturn V was launched in 1973, without a crew.

With f ully loaded lifting capacities of 210,000 pounds for the SLS (95 metric tons) and 260,000 pounds (118 tonnes) in later interactions of the Saturn V, even more during the launch of Skylab.

Six more crewed mission ventured to Luna via the Saturn V, and the rocket was even used to send the Skylab space station into orbit during its last launch in 1973. But back to the myth.

On March 14th, 1973, a Saturn V rocket launched into space with an important mission: putting Skylab, the first US space station, into orbit.