January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
... into space Joe Kerwin, an aeronautical physician and NASA astronaut, was a scientist on the first expedition to the Skylab space station from 25 May to 22 June 1973. Mukai Chiaki, a cardiovascular surgeon and astronaut of Japan Aerospace Exploration...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... explorers. Can anyone doubt that after Rosetta and Philae? And so today, after faltering (re-)starts with Skylab, the Space Shuttle and now the International Space Station, space agencies (and we the taxpayers) are...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... related to textile technology include: NASA seamstress Aylene Baker pictured stitching part of a replacement heat shield for Skylab in 1973 after the original unexpectedly tore off shortly after launch. The photo is now on display at the...
October 2026
Dream of a lifetime - Witnessing Artemis II from the Kennedy Space Center press site
... extraordinary courage of the astronauts who ventured into the unknown. I watched every Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab mission, read everything I could find about space exploration and vividly remember gazing up at the Moon during...
04 February 2018
Australia in Space
... space arena: its historic launch base at Woomera and the fact that the remains of the deorbiting Skylab space station fell within its territory. This is, of course, a gross misrepresentation of the nation’s activities in space, as Australian...
26 February 2018
Space Architecture Education for Engineers and Architects
... to the late 1960s, when industrial designer Raymond Loewy worked with NASA on the interior design of the Skylab space station. But it is becoming increasingly relevant as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) continues to orbit Earth...
