National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Skylab Gallery

The Skylab Space Station

The Skylab space station on the launch pad

Launch of the Skylab space station (Skylab 1)

Arabella, one of the two Skylab spiders

Skylab 2 (First manned mission to Skylab)

The Skylab space station as seen by the departing Skylab 2 crew

The Skylab space station during a Skylab 2 mission flyby

Skylab 3 (Second manned mission to Skylab)

Launch of the Skylab 3 manned mission

The Skylab 3 SIV-B second stage of the Saturn 1B rocket viewed from the Apollo Command/Service Module.

The S150 X-ray detector

Diagram of the S150 instrument

X-ray emission from the Crab Nebula for two collimator fields of view. Several energy bands were seen successively by two counters, each in three energy channels.

Skylab flies over the Amazon River delta during Skylab 3 mission

Skylab seen from low Earth orbit during Skylab 3 mission

Skylab 4 (Third manned mission to Skylab)

Launch of the Skylab 4 manned mission

The Apollo capsule docked with Skylab

The interior of the Skylab station with the Skylab 4 crew

Melbourne, Australia seen from Skylab 4

Skylab above the Earth as seen during Skylab 4 mission