First American Space Station
The first eva by a non soviet non american was made on december 9 1988 by jean loup chrétien of france during a three week stay on the mir space station.
First american space station. As of 2020 the international space station is the only operational crewed space station currently in orbit. The first eva by a japanese astronaut was made on november 25 1997 by takao doi during sts 87. Skylab was the first united states space station launched by nasa occupied for about 24 weeks between may 1973 and february 1974.
1971 1975 1975 1 joint with soviet union. It was operated by three separate three astronaut crews. Landed first humans on the moon skylab.
The first to give serious scientifically grounded consideration to space stations were konstantin tsiolkovsky and hermann oberth about two decades apart in the early 20th century. Skylab 2 skylab 3 and skylab 4. The launch of skylab america s first space station on board a modified saturn v rocket from nasa s kennedy space center in fla.
Program used to practice space rendezvous and evas. Major operations included an orbital workshop a solar observatory earth observation and hundreds of experiments. On may 14 1973 marked a new phase for american s human space flight program.
1964 1973 1974 3. The first mention of anything resembling a space station occurred in edward everett hale s 1869 the brick moon. 1960 1968 1972 11.
Previous stations include the salyut and. It scattered debris over the. First missions in which a spacecraft was reused shuttle mir program.