Space historian Roger Launius writes about the sad fate of Skylab, America’s first space station: Was NASA Serious about Trying to Rescue Skylab? – Roger Launius’s Blog.
Jim Oberg points to his earlier article on Skylab: Skylab’s Untimely Fate: James Oberg tells the sad story of how the United States abandoned the largest space station ever built and spent a quarter century trying to regain the capability – Air & Space, February/March 1992, pp. 73-79.