Skylab
1973–1979 · Event
America's first space station, saved by spacewalking repairs after losing its shield at launch; its fiery 1979 return over Australia is a global media event.
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More from Spaceflight
- Apollo 8 orbits the Moon (1968)
- Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket (1926)
- First Space Shuttle flight (1981)
- V-2: the first rocket to reach space (1942)
- Apollo 17: the last Moon landing (1972)
- Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation (1903)
- First spacewalk (1965)
- Mir space station (1986)
Around 1973
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)