Skylab was the United States' first space station, and it operated in low Earth orbit from 1973 to 1979. The station was launched into orbit by a Saturn V rocket on May 14th 1973 and was designed to serve as a platform for scientific experiments and observations in areas such as solar astronomy, Earth resources, and human physiology.
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