Skylab was launched on May 14, 1973, aboard the last of the Apollo-era Saturn V rockets and become America's first space station. Designed for long duration missions, the Skylab program objectives were twofold: to prove that humans could live and work in space for extended periods, and to expand our knowledge of solar astronomy well beyond Earth-based observations.
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