![Skylab's demise was an international media event, with merchandising, wagering on time and place of re-entry, and nightly news reports.[12] The San Francisco Examiner offered a $10,000 prize for the first piece of Skylab delivered to its offices; the competing Chronicle offered $200,000 if a subscriber suffered personal or property damage.[12] NASA calculated that the odds of station re-entry debris hitting a human were 152 to 1[1]:369—although the odds of debris hitting a city of 100,000 or more were 7 to 1—and teams were ready to head to any country hit by debris and requesting help.[12]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJIHmwRz48pwcRk_JFArtncMZWgJttMxRKQRyF-3s9NRaK9bSK787wxri1l_7ox6rhviFFLKph68HAEKjRpp4yxcGIQZW6gffYtzOptTVIhY8gtv-Vt3EyjSruR9hRx5ymE8-nnkL2md0/?imgmax=800 "Skylab's demise was an international media event, with merchandising, wagering on time and place of re-entry, and nightly news reports.[12] The San Francisco Examiner offered a $10,000 prize for the first piece of Skylab delivered to its offices; the competing Chronicle offered $200,000 if a subscriber suffered personal or property damage.[12] NASA calculated that the odds of station re-entry debris hitting a human were 152 to 1[1]:369—although the odds of debris hitting a city of 100,000 or more were 7 to 1—and teams were ready to head to any country hit by debris and requesting help.[12]")
Remember Skylab? For those who were born in the 80's onward, Skylab was the United States' first space station. That 100-ton space station, I remember, caused so much publicity and fears. They said it would wipe out a populace once it hit the ground.
On the radio, I heard weird stories like people who committed suicide for fear of the Skylab; some rushed into marriage. It was crazy.
T-shirts, stickers, junk foods, restaurants had always Skylab logos in them. Cults and ephemeral prophets came out too to prophesy the end of the world.
However, what I really remember when I think of Skylab was not those crazy things: it was a t-shirt with a typical 70's psychedelic design with a big print on it: SKY LOVE.
Well, perhaps it was just a play of word, or a marketing flick, or a real douse of inspiration to find something good amidst that chaos. Nevertheless, I thank God for the t-shirt and the person who made it. My memory of Skylab was not at all bad.
I realized it’s not hard to find beauty and inspiration even in the most chaotic of the situations. All we need is a childlike imagination and a believing heart.
~~~ Sky Love ~~~
photo: Sky love @ Google image
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