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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...State Department last month designated one member in each of its overseas missions as a Skylab officer to brief foreign governments on the facts of the spacecraft's fall and what the U.S. was prepared to do in case of serious damage. In India, the U.S. specialist, Thomas Vrebalovich, went to unusual lengths to pacify critics of the American space venture. He told journalists that if NASA faced the choice of steering Skylab toward either India or America, it would most certainly select the spacecraft's homeland. India's 83-year-old Prime Minister Morarji Desai joined in trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skylab's Fiery Fall | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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