Skylab is not just a story of space hardware and space science, but also of space explorers and pioneers. Using official NASA documentation and interviews with the astronauts and key personnel, the inside story of Skylab is presented as the story unfolds. An evaluation of the lessons learnt from the programme and how these were, or were not, incorporated into the Space Shuttle and Space Station programme is also offered to present the value of Skylab in the context of the current programme, 25 years after the last crew came home.

First book devoted to Skylab and includes accounts of the operations onboard skylab from planning to completion Provides an insight to life inside a space station in the early 1970s compared with activities on Shuttle and Mir in the '80s and '90s

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Foreword.- Author's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- List of Illustrations and Tables.- Acronyms and Abbreviations.- Prologue.- Origins.- Preparing for Flight.- The Human Element.- Flight Operations.- Research Fields.- Beyond Skylab.- Appendix: The Astronauts. Mission Data. Experiment Data.- Bibliography.- Index.