What Are the Functions and Uses of Skylab?

[PhysicsGeek69]

Help On the "SkyLab"

I was recently checking and found a place in space called the skylab...could someone inform me of what the skylab is? its functions? uses? etc.. thanks

 

[russ_watters]

Skylab was the US's first space station - it crashed in 1979: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab

 

[Astronuc]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/skylab/

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/shuttle/f_skylab1.html

http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/skylab/

Then Space Shuttle (STS) was supposed to have been completed and flight ready in time to service Skylab. Unfortunately, problems delayed deployment of Shuttle, and Skylab came down into the atmosphere. It was a sad time.

I had hoped that they would have had a contingency plan, such as a small upper stage booster that could have been rendezvoused with the station and boosted Skylab to higher orbit.