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- OUTBACK
- Skylab's debris field stretched across a swath of remote Western Australia — the town of Esperance playfully fined NASA $400 for littering.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- HEATSHIELD
- Skylab's thermal protection was damaged during launch in May 1973, prompting astronauts to improvise a sunshield repair on their very first day aboard.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TELESCOPE
- The Apollo Telescope Mount on Skylab was, at the time, the most sophisticated solar observatory ever flown — gathering more solar data than all previous missions combined.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- WEIGHTLESS
- Skylab's crews spent up to 84 days in weightlessness, setting American endurance records that shaped NASA's understanding of long-duration spaceflight.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Skylab splashes down word search · free large-print puzzle, July 11 1979, space station reentry
Skylab Splashes Down: a free large-print word search
Skylab splashes down — free, large-print word search marking the fiery July 11, 1979 reentry that scattered history across the Australian outback.
About Skylab Splashes Down
On July 11, 1979, Skylab — America's first space station — fell back through the atmosphere in a blaze of light after nearly six years circling the Earth. Pieces rained down over the remote Australian outback and the southern Indian Ocean, and the town of Esperance, Australia, famously issued NASA a litter fine. Before that dramatic end, three crews had lived and worked aboard Skylab, conducting medical and solar experiments in the long, quiet hum of weightlessness, proving that human beings could thrive for weeks at a time above the world.
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