Vintage NASA film on the mission of Skylab. Skylab was impressive in size and could have served long beyond the three missions that visited the station. Little known fact was that it was hoped Skylab would be a home for the Space Shuttle to dock. Unfortunately, delays in the Shuttle combined with unusual solar activity swelled Earth's atmosphere creating excess drag on the station causing it to deorbit before the Shuttle could save it. During that time America was as it is today without a launch capability to have reached the station and boosted its orbit. The Shuttle missed saving Skylab by about two years. It certainly would have altered the space program had Skylab been saved and the Shuttle had a destination in space. Politics would keep the Shuttle and America without a Space Station far longer than anyone could have imagined.