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  1. Skylab: The Launch Damage, Rescue and Three Crews’ Record Stays

    Published: 6 Feb 2026

    A documentary on Skylab, NASA's first space station, built from Apollo hardware.

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    Outcome
    Success
  2. Skylab: Rescue, Record Crews and Re-entry of NASA’s First Station

    Published: 16 Oct 2024

    A documentary history of Skylab, NASA's first space station, built from Apollo-era hardware.

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    Outcome
    Success
  3. Skylab: Damaged at Launch, Repaired in Orbit, Lost in 1979

    Published: 5 May 2024

    A history of Skylab, America's first space station, from the Apollo Applications Program origins and the switch from a wet to a dry workshop, through the damaged launch on May 14, 1973, the three…

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    Launch site
    Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center
    Outcome
    Partial success
  4. Skylab: From Von Braun’s Station Plans to Its 1979 Re-entry

    Published: 21 Sep 2020

    Skylab was a solely US space station that orbited Earth between 1973 and 1979.

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    Vehicle
    Saturn V
    Outcome
    Success
  5. Skylab’s 1979 Reentry: How Debris Ended Up Across Western Australia

    Published: 30 May 2020

    ABC television and radio coverage from July 1979 follows Skylab's return to Earth.

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  6. How Skylab Was Saved: The Stuck Solar Array and Chance Tools

    Published: 18 Apr 2020

    A documentary on how Skylab was damaged during its Saturn V launch, when a heat shield was torn away and one solar array was left stuck.

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    Outcome
    Success
  7. Skylab 1973: Repairing the Workshop and Living in Weightlessness

    Published: 25 Sep 2017

    A NASA documentary on Skylab, which launched on May 14, 1973.

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    Outcome
    Success
  8. Skylab: Repairing America’s First Space Station and Its 1979 Fall

    Published: 12 Jul 2017

    The History Guy recounts Skylab, America's first manned space station, built from the second stage of a Saturn V and launched on May 14, 1973.

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    Outcome
    Partial success