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Parts of Skylab, America’s first space station, come crashing down on Australia and into the Indian Ocean five years after the last manned Skylab mission ended. No one was injured.
Launched in 1973, Skylab was the world’s first successful space station. The first manned Skylab mission came two years after the Soviet Union launched Salyut 1, the world’s first space station, into orbit around the earth. However, unlike the ill-fated Salyut, which was plagued with problems, the American space station was a great success, safely housing three separate three-man crews for extended periods of time.
Parts of Skylab, America’s first space station, come crashing down on Australia and into the Indian Ocean five years after the last manned Skylab mission ended. No one was injured.
Launched in 1973, Skylab was the world’s first successful space station. The first manned Skylab mission came two years after the Soviet Union launched Salyut 1, the world’s first space station, into orbit around the earth. However, unlike the ill-fated Salyut, which was plagued with problems, the American space station was a great success, safely housing three separate three-man crews for extended periods of time.
Skylab crashes to Earth
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
There's a whole crew of folks at Vandenberg AFB tracking all the stuff up there...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Cpl Vic Burk Lt Col Charlie Brown Group of Folks at GEODDS Diego Garcia Tracking that Stuff To!
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An interesting piece of NASA science history, Lt Col Charlie Brown! Thank you for sharing it!
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An interesting piece of NASA science history, Lt Col Charlie Brown! Thank you for sharing it!
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