Skylab's Uncontrolled Re-entry Scare

America's first space station, Skylab, experienced an uncontrolled re-entry in 1979, causing international concern before its fragments largely landed in the Indian Ocean and parts of Australia.

Sources

• history.com
• americaspace.com
• The History of Skylab - The Space Collective
• Skylab, NASA's first ever space station disintegrates on re-entry into Earth's a
• nasa.gov

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