Skylab Space Station

[Eric Mc]

Not a topic discussed much here up to now but today is an appropriate anniversary as it is on this day in 1979 that Skylab fell back to earth.

[Toaster]

Possibly assigned to the History section?

[generationx]

I'm old enough to remember most of this project "live" as tv programmes like Blue Peter (English kids afternoon magazine show) covered it quite extensively.

It has the honour of being the last launch of a Saturn V



The "back-up" Skylab is in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington - it's huge!



Pictures: Saturn V: Wikipedia and Skylab: my holiday snap

[Eric Mc]

Although overall Skylab was smaller than the ISS, the internal volume of the main workshop was way in excess of any single module of the ISS.
From a science point of view, Skylab’s main achievements centred on human biological adaptation to long term effects of Zero G and also solar observation.

[funkyrobot]

I have the A House in Space book.

Interesting just how big Skylab looked inside compared to the ISS.