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
Earth Orbit Stations Earth Orbit Stations E.O.S.: Earth Orbit Stations is a space station management simulation game developed by Karl Buiter, with Joe Ybarra as producer, for Electronic Arts. It was released for the Commodore 64 and Apple II in 1987. The game focuses on both the material and economic challenges of building a permanent, fully functioning space station in geocentric orbit. The game was set in 1996, and the player is given various selected scenarios to fulfill, from mundane tasks such as setting up a simple space station to developing and supplying a specified amount of high-grade, zero G pharmaceuticals to being