File:Skylabfragment.JPG
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This is the largest recovered piece of the Skylab Space Station that plunged to the Earth in 1979. This fragment is one of six identical air tanks that were aboard the orbiting laboratory to supply oxygen to the crew. The oxygen tank was recovered in Austrailia by two men who witnessed its re-entry on July 11. They found the tank and other small debris about 15 miles southwest of the small mining town of Rawlina. Before it crashed the tank was eight feet long, four feet in diameter and weighted 2,800 pounds empty. On loan from KARA international of Australia. Photo taken at US Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama.
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| current | 13:59, 8 January 2017 | | 692 × 543 (360 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>This is the largest recovered piece of the Skylab Space Station that plunged to the Earth in 1979. This fragment is one of six identical air tanks that were aboard the orbiting laboratory to supply oxygen to the crew. The oxygen tank was recovered in Austrailia by two men who witnessed its re-entry on July 11. They found the tank and other small debris about 15 miles southwest of the small mining town of Rawlina. Before it crashed the tank was eight feet long, four feet in diameter and weighted 2,800 pounds empty. On loan from KARA international of Australia. Photo taken at US Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama. </p> |
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