A Rocket Becomes a Space Habitat. In the 1970s, turning a rocket into a habitat was an affordable way for NASA to build a space station with existing hardware. The Skylab concept that used Saturn V rocket hardware allowed NASA to build a space station during a fiscally constrained time when budgets for space missions decreased at the end of the Apollo lunar missons. This photograph was taken during assembly of the bottom and upper floors of the Skylab orbital workshop at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. Credit: NASA

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Location: USA, Alabama, Huntsville, Marshall Space Flight Center
Photo credit: © NASA / digitaleye / Alamy / Afripics
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