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Skylab transformed Apollo-era hardware into America’s first and showed how crews could repair, inhabit, and use an orbital laboratory for long-duration science.
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4 mission-specific spacecraft and test articles, plus 8 launch systems and shared hardware records.
Skylab was America’s first space station, built around converted Saturn S-IVB-212.
The Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM), one of four major components comprising the Skylab, was designed and developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center.
The Apollo Telescope Mount was Skylab's externally mounted solar observatory, electrical-power source, and precision pointing assembly.
Saturn IB SA-206 supported Skylab 2 in the Skylab program.
Saturn IB SA-207 supported Skylab 3 in the Skylab program.
Saturn IB SA-208 supported Skylab 4 in the Skylab program.
CSM-116 carried the first Skylab crew and the emergency repair equipment that saved the station.
CSM-117 carried the second resident crew to Skylab and returned them after a record 59-day expedition.
Skylab 4 CSM-118 supported Skylab 4 in the Skylab program.
CSM-119 was maintained as Skylab’s backup and rescue spacecraft.
This cutaway drawing details the internal design of the Skylab Multiple Docking Adapter (MDA).
The Multiple Docking Adapter formed Skylab's forward crew-vehicle interface and a compact control-and-experiment compartment.
Contextual image from Skylab 1; it documents a canonically related mission, not the exact Saturn V SA-513 record.
SA-513 was the final Saturn V launched and the only Saturn V flown with two powered stages.
This 1971 photograph was taken during the assembly of the Flight Article of the Skylab Airlock Module (AM).
Skylab's Airlock Module was both the crew's EVA gateway and the station's central utility module.