{"id":6040,"date":"2026-07-11T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6040"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:03:12","slug":"skylab-returned-to-earth-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6040","title":{"rendered":"Skylab Returned to Earth in 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12773\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12773\" class=\"wp-image-12773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Skylab-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Skylab\" width=\"271\" height=\"204\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skylab<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Skylab<\/em> in 1979 reentered the earth\u2019s atmosphere and broke apart<\/strong>. The pieces fell into the Indian Ocean and onto parts of Australia. <em>Skylab,\u00a0<\/em>the first United States space station, had been launched May 14, 1973. Three manned crews, <em>Skylab 2<\/em>, <em>Skylab 3<\/em>, and <em>Skylab 4<\/em>, conducted experiments there between May 1973 and February 1974. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/skylab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skylab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skylab in 1979 reentered the earth\u2019s atmosphere and broke apart. The pieces fell into the Indian Ocean and onto parts of Australia. Skylab,\u00a0the first United States space station, had been launched May 14, 1973. Three manned crews, Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4, conducted experiments there between May 1973 and February 1974. Children could <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6040' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5342,5709,634,633],"class_list":["post-6040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5342","tag-july-11","tag-return-to-earth","tag-skylab","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6040"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29557,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions\/29557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}