<p>And if you can make it to Esperance and Balladonia (both quite remote) make sure you look at the the Skylab displays at the town museum and roadhouse, respectively. There are quite a few bits and pices of which they are quite proud. The parts include tanks, the film vault, panels, and other debris. </p><p>Of course then, as now, the NASA haters were out in force. It was 10 years since Apollo 11, three years since Viking and the last Apollo mission (ASTP), and the shuttle was afflicted by what seemed to be interminable delays. Skylab's fall was seen to be symptomatic of an agency in decline. They were wrong then and they are wrong now.</p><p>Jon</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Whether we become a multi-planet species with unlimited horizons, or are forever confined to Earth will be decided in the twenty-first century amid the vast plains, rugged canyons and lofty mountains of Mars</em> Arthur Clarke</p> </div>