Timeline Wednesday 11 July 1979

Events on Wednesday 11 July 1979 1

• 1979 Skylab falls to Earth NASA's first space station reenters over Australia The uncontrolled reentry of the US space station Skylab scattered debris over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia on 11 July 1979. NASA had launched Skylab in 1973, but the station's orbit decayed faster than expected. No one was injured, and the town of Esperance issued NASA a symbolic littering fine.