HOUSTON, Texas -- The Apollo astronaut and the fourth man to walk on the moon, Alan Bean has died at age 86. Bean died on Saturday at Houston Methodist Hospital. "Alan was the strongest and kindest ...

“America’s first space station,” Skylab, was launched in 1973 on the last Saturn V rocket flown. The mission, coming on the heels of the final Apollo Moon landing, concluded nine months later in ...

Parked in low Earth orbit and traveling around our planet at 16,000 miles per hour (25,750 kilometers per hour), Skylab allowed for detailed observations of the Earth and Sun, acted as a medical lab, ...

The cover of the February 18, 1974 issue shows Skylab space station and its solar array assembly in a photograph from Rockwell International Apollo Command/service module during a fly-around ...