Last Days of the Space Age probably won’t be the last word on the biggest thing to hit Australia in 1979.
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The real-life story of Skylab is so filled with drama – and a fair smattering of surreal humour – that this is not the first time it has made its way to the screen. The documentary,imagined what would have happened if Skylab had survived.recalls French fears about the vessel crashing in western France, while its 2021 namesake depicts nervous villagers watching the sky in a remote corner of southern India.
The two papers had spoken with authorities from NASA, who had assured them that the chances of Skylab making landfall were slim, so both offers seemed like a safe bet. As we now know, they were wrong. Stan Thornton, a 17-year-old from Esperance, salvaged a couple of dozen pieces of the space station that had bounced off the garden shed in his mother’s backyard.
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