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Was Skylab any better? "Skylab's orbit eventually decayed and it disintegrated in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979, scattering debris across the Indian Ocean an
by chasil 6mo ago
Was Skylab any better?
"Skylab's orbit eventually decayed and it disintegrated in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979, scattering debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab
- xattt 6mo agoInteresting to note the short time scale between NASA missions: Apollo 17 was in December 1972, and Skylab was first occupied in May 1973.
- Sharlin 6mo agoSkylab was literally a modified Apollo mission, the only part of the Apollo Applications Program that ended up actually implemented. As you may know, the Apollo 18–20 flights ended up cancelled, and any plans for continuation flights involving longer (initially 14-day) stays on the surface and an eventual lunar base were scrapped.
- wat10000 6mo agoThat had nothing to do with Skylab itself. It was caused by NASA’s lack of space flight capability in that time period due to Shuttle delays.