NASA's Skylab Vet, Hawes Helps Build A Space Station

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 26, 2000| Author: Kathy Sawyer | Copyright information

Michael Hawes sat at a console in a tiny room in Building 30 at Johnson Space Center in Houston, trying to guide a sinking, dying space station toward an uninhabited spot to crash.

"I ended up being the one who sent the commands to tumble Skylab out of control," he recalled. That was in 1979, as America's first space station burned through the atmosphere and scattered pieces of itself over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia--happily, without casualties.

These days, the 44-yea...

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