Skylab story out of this world

By Belinda Hickman
Updated July 2 2019 - 7:49pm, first published 9:00am
Esperance Museum cultural officer Lynda Horn with Skylab debris on display at the museum. Photo supplied by Esperance Museum.
Esperance Museum cultural officer Lynda Horn with Skylab debris on display at the museum. Photo supplied by Esperance Museum.
kylab was launched on the final Saturn rocket in May, 1973. Photo supplied by Dwight Steven-Boniecki.
kylab was launched on the final Saturn rocket in May, 1973. Photo supplied by Dwight Steven-Boniecki.

ON July 11, 1979, 10-year-old Dwight Steven-Boniecki went to bed terrified that United States' first space station, Skylab, was plummeting towards earth and his suburban Sydney home.

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