IIRC, HTC used this film...

[Syzygyone]

- ON THIS DAY -

On July 11, 1979, the abandoned United States space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20030711.html

Little known factoitd:

The film of this event was used by HTC to model the gloriously flaming destruction sequence triggered whenever I fly and get shot down which is 99.9% of the time!

[gofaster]

I remember doing a school report on SkyLab and how disappointed I was to learn that all of that technology ended up in pieces strewn across the Pacific and Australian dessert.  It was a pretty cool piece of space technology up there, the next step to life in space, sort of a vision of a future that hasn't quite come to fruition yet.

[midnight Target]

1804

The Vice President of the United States shoots the Secretary of the Treasury ...... and never serves a day in jail! (An ancestor of Clinton?)