Where Is Skylab Now

Where Is the Skylab Space Station Now Four percent less drag than NASA's team had worked out was enough, in July 1979, to push the end of Skylab's trail of debris hundreds of kilometres east, past an empty ocean and over Western Australia. This film follows America's first space station from the launch that nearly wrecked it and the spacewalk that saved it, past the two spiders aboard, to the night it fell and the places where its pieces, and one of those spiders, are kept today. Subscribe to join the next search. Chapters 0:00 Hearing bangs in the sky 1:11 Losing the sunshade 3:32 Calling off the doctors 5:38 Going outside with a cutter 8:40 Taking two spiders aboard 10:36 Racing a stormier Sun 12:05 Aiming for an empty ocean 14:14 Turning up in the outback 16:17 Looking for anything whole Visitors: the Esperance Museum closes for about four months from 12 October 2026 while its goods shed is repaired. The Smithsonian lists Arabella as on loan or in storage; by one account (Atlas Obscura, 2014), she was on loan to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville. Public domain: NASA, U.S. government and Commons photographers; aurora video courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center. Wikimedia Commons: Luke Busellato, Madhav Rajesh, Calistemon, Bahnfrend, Famartin, Craigboy, Orderinchaos, Chuq, B20180 and Sanjay Acharya (CC BY-SA 4.0); Atomic Taco (CC BY-SA 2.0); ajay_suresh (CC BY 4.0). Music: Epidemic Sound. Thunder: Jonathan Hunt (CC BY-SA 4.0). Five illustrations were made with AI where no free photo exists: three of the cutter and rope at the wing (around seven minutes in), a faceless stand-in for flight controller Charles Harlan (eleven minutes in) and light trails over Esperance (thirteen minutes in). So is the thumbnail. All other photographs and film are real; a few are stand-ins, like a garden spider and a radio studio, and some places appear at another date. Further reading: Homesteading Space, the Skylab story written with astronauts Joe Kerwin and Owen Garriott: https://amzn.to/476Vb00 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.