Rogue TOXIC space station could CRASH like doomed NASA spacelab

The exact location of its re-entry is not yet known.

But it’s uncontrolled fall shares similarities with the end of NASA’s doomed space station.

Skylab was launched in 1973, and was manned by teams of astronauts as it orbited the earth.

It collected vast amounts of data and images before being abandoned in space in 1974.

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IT'S COMING: China's Tiangong-1 space station is going to smash into Earth

In 1979, NASA realised that Skylab was starting to break up and would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere, but they were unable to control Skylab's path, nor could they predict exactly where the pieces might land.

As NASA, and the world's media, tracked Skylab's progress in early July 1979, it seemed it could end up anywhere.

In the early hours of the July 12, 1979, Skylab crashed on western Australia’s south east coast, scattering debris across the Nullarbor and the eastern goldfields and causing a worldwide sensation.

And it is expected Tiangong-1 could face the same fate.

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