NASA’S SPACE STATION PROGRAM: EVOLUTION OF ITS …

Visited by three 3-person crews in 1973-1974, it made an uncontrolledreentry through Earth’s atmosphere in 1979, spreading debris on Australia and the Indian Ocean.The space station approved in 1984 was intended to go beyond Skylab, to a permanently occupiedfacility with sequential crews onboard year-round. ................
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