A space station crash landed over Esperance 40 years ago, setting in motion unusual events










https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-12/four-decades-on-from-skylabs-descent-from-space/11249626

 

What a sense of humor! I feel such a fool! I looked on my map for an hour almost and never found it. What a kidder!

 

Interesting read, thanks for sharing.

 

I remember news stories about people buying special life insurance just in case the debris landed on them...

 

I was a six-year old living in Christchurch, NZ. I can still remember staying up and watching the News on TV for the weeks leading up to its eventual crash landing. No one knew where it would land, it could have hit NZ, I was convinced it was going to crash through our corrugated iron roof & land on top of me in bed. Splat.

I was terrified of Skylab. And then it landed in Esperance. Boy was I one relieved kid. I went back to important things like listening to Spike Milligan's Bad Jelly The Witch on the radio & playing marbles.

 

Good Luck Collecting That from the Trump Administration. ($400.)

 

So you go right to trump and forget about all the administrations before him....,nice

 

I done a pretty cool assignment in primary school. It was a big news item for weeks in Australia before and after in the day.

Actually if it landed in the NT next week I would have to inspect it.

 

Collect is the operative work. Can’t collect from administrations that do not exist anymore. You have to go to the present one.

 

400$ - that is a fine that the NASA can not pay without risking the next moon landing.

Thx for sharing.

 

With a 40 year old ticket unpaid, good luck trying to renew the registration and license plates on Skylab.

 

With inflation that might buy you quite a cache of Shinolas ... if we spin it as an opportunity for Trump to prosthelytize brand America we might manage to get one Shinola per Oz based Omega forum member...

 

Australia owes us for Crocodile Dundee so I'd say we're even.

 

You left the Cinema happy, you know it.

You know he would be the Governor of Texas in a heartbeat.

 

Ha. I think you underestimate us.

 

Lynda Horn said:
"Skylab did put Esperance on the map"

Nearly took it off the map as I remember it.

Manna from heaven - every digger and his dog was out looking for pieces of SkyLab to sell back to NASA or get on the front page of the Western Australian Sunday Times

As for the fine, that plus interest thank you.

 

The Morris Minor looks like it came down behind Skylab.

 

Forget about Crocodile Dundee. You didn't pay your fine so in 1983 we went and stole a cup that sat in the New York Yacht Club for 132 years and off to Western Australia it went.

 

And if I recall, my boss was a bum because he didn't give me the day off.



*for those that don't know, the guy on the right in the clown jacket is Bob Hawke the Aussie PM at the time and he famously stated after the Bond win of the Cup "that any boss who doesn't give their workers a day off today is a bum" - so workers just took the day off because Bob said it was ok.

She'll be right mate...

 

Everybody knows that Kangaroo Jack was a much more important cinematic breakthrough.