Skylab

  30TH  ANNIVERSARY    JULY 12TH, 2009                    

On July 12th 1979, the first American space station "Skylab" crashed out of control through the night sky and slammed back to Earth near Balladonia. As it moved through the atmosphere pieces tore off and fell to Earth in the Esperance region. Large pieces of it are now on display in the Esperance Municipal Museum along with other material from NASA. 

A Skylab scale model is on display at the Visitor Centre and we also sell great Skylab t-shirts, stickers and other memorabilia. 

For more information please visit:

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

YouTube video

Article "The Day The Sky(lab) Fell" by Stewart Taggart

Article on the Australian Traveller website

SHIRE of Esperance manager of tourism and culture German Ugarte, Esperance Museum curator Dorothy Andre and senior vice president of the Esperance Bay Historical Society and shire president at the time of the Skylab crash Merv Andre with a certificate endorsing the $US400 donation.