PBS Nova: Terror in Space (1998) (pbs.org)

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[−] troutwine 29d ago
There's a roughly contemporary book "Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir" by Bryan Burrough that I recall being somewhat controversial when it came out but also very carefully reported. I do recommend it still.
[−] chasil 29d ago
Was Skylab any better?

"Skylab's orbit eventually decayed and it disintegrated in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979, scattering debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab

[−] wat10000 29d ago
That had nothing to do with Skylab itself. It was caused by NASA’s lack of space flight capability in that time period due to Shuttle delays.
[−] xattt 29d ago
Interesting to note the short time scale between NASA missions: Apollo 17 was in December 1972, and Skylab was first occupied in May 1973.
[−] Sharlin 29d ago
Skylab was literally a modified Apollo mission, the only part of the Apollo Applications Program that ended up actually implemented. As you may know, the Apollo 18–20 flights ended up cancelled, and any plans for continuation flights involving longer (initially 14-day) stays on the surface and an eventual lunar base were scrapped.
[−] exogeny 29d ago
Simple, functional design. Obviously not...quite the intended use of the HTML table elements, but ah well, that era was fun. Tables and image maps and transparent GIFs!
[−] danvk 29d ago
Is the video episode for this up somewhere? It can be hard to find old PBS shows, even from just a few years ago.
[−] signorovitch 29d ago
Amazing that this is still up, and that so many of the links still work. Great find!