For a nation that watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, the next frontier was living in space. That was why in 1973, NASA launched its first, and so far, only space station, Skylab. Over three missions, nine astronauts spent 174 days in orbit, living and working 270 miles above the Earth. But Skylab has been largely forgotten, as it […]
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