Here on Earth, we tend to take showers for granted. But for astronauts stationed in space, taking a quick rinse—much like cooking, eating, using the toilet, and just about every other mundane, ...

The Oklahoma History Center Museum (OHCM) will close its exhibit "Launch to Landing: Oklahomans and Space" on March 31.The ...

In the summer of 1973, astronauts Alan Bean, Jack LMA, and Dr. Owen Garriott conducted a nearly two-month mission aboard ...

As a dedicated station, the Dry Workshop – which would later evolve into Skylab – would provide more space for astronauts, be able to carry more equipment, and not require as much of their ...

Skylab also had a small refrigerator/freezer and for the first time, astronauts ate real ice cream. By the way, freeze-dried ice cream isn’t real astronaut food. Although the stuff was developed ...

In 1979, the American space station, Skylab, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. Large fragments hit SW Australia instead of the Indian Ocean. Originally broadcast 11 July 2013.

To make the astronauts feel more at home in orbit, Skylab—the first U.S. space station—came equipped with a contraption more closely resembling a shower [PDF]. A floor-to-ceiling, cylinder ...