Remembering Skylab

Posted by michael on Wednesday May 14, 2003 @05:04AM from the don't-look-up dept.

linuxwrangler writes "It was 30 years ago today that NASA launched Skylab, the first US space station. An article at New York Times remembers Skylab. It was hardly a flawless launch with a meteroid shield getting ripped loose causing one of the solar arrays to partially deploy and then be blown into space by the exhaust from a retro-rocket but the speed and effectiveness of the astronauts' repairs showed human's ability to operate in space and helped pave the way for today's projects. Skylab reentered on July 11, 1979 leaving a debris field across parts of Western Australia and the Indian Ocean."

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Time travel too!!! by karrde · 2003-05-14 05:10 · Score: 2, Funny

So among all the other feats it managed to reenter the atmosphere 4 years before it launched.... Amazing!!

Perhaps it should say it reentered in 1989.
Re:30 Years. by GreenHell · 2003-05-14 05:15 · Score: 2, Funny

You're absolutely right, it's the 3rd sentence.

So it's official then. I can't read.

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