December 23, 2024

On This Day in Space! Feb. 8, 1974: Astronauts say final goodbye to Skylab

On Feb. 8, 1974, the last crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth.Skylab was the first and only American space station, and it supported 3 crewed objectives. Gerald P. Carr, Skylab 4 mission leader, jokingly shows weight training in zero-gravity, stabilizing astronaut pilot William R. Pogue upside down on his finger. Still not enough area?