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Skylab
Skylab transformed Apollo-era hardware into America’s first and showed how crews could repair, inhabit, and use an orbital laboratory for long-duration science.
- Missions
- 4
- People
- 9
- Vehicles
- 12
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Choose a path through the Skylab archive.
Skylab timeline
4 flights. One complete program record.
Follow every archived flight from the earliest development test through the program’s latest flown mission, with its defining milestones and mission hardware connected along the way.
Defining milestones
The turning points that shaped this program and its legacy.
1973 · America’s first station launchesSkylab 1The final Saturn V placed Skylab in orbit, but ascent damage left the workshop overheated and short of electrical power.Explore milestone →
1973 · The station is savedSkylab 2The first resident crew installed a sunshade, freed the remaining workshop solar wing, and made Skylab habitable.Explore milestone →- 1973 · Two months in orbitSkylab 3The second crew reinforced Skylab’s thermal protection and more than doubled the human spaceflight endurance record.Explore milestone →
- 1974 · An 84-day recordSkylab 4The final crew completed four EVAs, observed Comet Kohoutek, and closed the program with its longest and most productive expedition.1-year leapExplore milestone →
Every Skylab program record
All 4 flown and non-flight archive records arranged chronologically.
Launch corridor
4 flights and tests compressed into 1 expandable arc.
- Arc 01Ignition1973 · 4 records
