Skylab I was launched on 14 May 1973.
As the number of space expeditions increased, there was felt a need to establish space stations in space where a team/mission sent to outer space could live for some time. They can remain functional for up to year's time. Skylab was the name given to the space station launched by the united states.
1998
Mir (Мир) was the first Russian space station. The word means Peace, World or Society. It was was operational from 1986 to 2001.
the year that the ranger space probe was launched was in 1964.
Skylab was launched on the14th May 1973 and re-entered Earth's atmosphere on the 11th July 1979.
On the 20th of November 1998, the Russian built module Zarya, became the first module of the International Space Station to be launched into space. A couple of days later, on the 4th of December, the fist American built module, Unity, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the space shuttle Endeavour. The construction of the ISS should be completed by the end of 2010.
Skylab was launched on the14th May 1973 and re-entered Earth's atmosphere on the 11th July 1979.
1981
Space Shuttle Columbia launched STS-1 on April 12th, 1981.
1960
Sputnik I was launched by the USSR on October 4, 1957.