Happy Birthday, Skylab!

On this day in 1973, the marvel of NASA called “Skylab” rocketed to high earth orbit. What a great time that was! I always wanted a Skylab for G.I. Joe, but the only thing I ever got that I requested from Hasbro was the submarine. (It really submerged! Neat!) Still, even at the that tender age I was excited about Skylab. Maybe I thought that my scientist dad would become an astronaut.

Of course, six years later “it entered the atmosphere, broke up, and scattered debris over the southeastern Indian Ocean and Western Australia”, as Encyclopædia Britannica notes, and we had to rely upon those pesky Ruskies.