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There was no incident involving Skylab and a cow. Are you mixing it up with a Cuban owned cow and a different launch almost 20 years before Skylab?
by iends 4y ago
There was no incident involving Skylab and a cow.
Are you mixing it up with a Cuban owned cow and a different launch almost 20 years before Skylab?
- dotnet00 4y agoHuh, I didn't realize that hadn't been Skylab! Looks like it's a somewhat popular myth arising from some stories about Skylab's reentry mentioning the cow incident.
- Grimburger 4y agoIt did come down in Western Australia though, the remote local council sent the US government a ~$100 fine for littering. Pretty sure they paid it. Edit: They never paid it, and it was $400 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70708/nasas-unpaid-400-littering-ticket-skylab-debris-australia https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70708/nasas-unpaid-400-l...