I remember when Skylab crashed, it was not treated as a joke, and there was some effort to find ground crew veterans and reestablish minimal control in case it

I remember when Skylab crashed, it was not treated as a joke, and there was some effort to find ground crew veterans and reestablish minimal control in case it was headed for a major city. There was considerable uncertainty until a day or so before the crash where in the world Skylab was heading. And Cosmos 954 was definitely no joke.