Skylab Skylab Skylab was a United States space station launched and operated by NASA, and occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974 – the only space station the U.S. has operated exclusively. In 1979 it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention. Skylab included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems necessary for crew survival and scientific experiments. It was launched unmanned by a modified Saturn V rocket, with a weight of . Lifting Skylab into low earth orbit was the final mission and launch of a Saturn V rocket (famous for carrying the
Aurora Space Station Aurora Space Station The Aurora Space Station is a technology concept for a private commercial space station in low Earth orbit that was announced on 5 March 2018 by Orion Span, a startup aerospace company in California, USA. The concept envisions a capacity of six people: two crew and four tourists. No launch contract has been signed for deployment of the modules nor crewed vehicles, and its construction has not started, but its representatives claim it will be launched in 2021. Frank Bunger, the founder and CEO of Orion Span, stated that the Aurora Station would offer to space tourists