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PBS Nova: Terror in Space (1998)

34 pointsby opengrasslast Saturday at 11:17 PM10 commentsview on HN

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troutwinetoday at 12:11 AM

There's a roughly contemporary book "Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir" by Bryan Burrough that I recall being somewhat controversial when it came out but also very carefully reported. I do recommend it still.

chasiltoday at 12:38 AM

Was Skylab any better?

"Skylab's orbit eventually decayed and it disintegrated in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979, scattering debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab

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danvktoday at 12:31 AM

Is the video episode for this up somewhere? It can be hard to find old PBS shows, even from just a few years ago.

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signorovitchyesterday at 11:44 PM

Amazing that this is still up, and that so many of the links still work. Great find!

exogenytoday at 12:08 AM

Simple, functional design. Obviously not...quite the intended use of the HTML table elements, but ah well, that era was fun. Tables and image maps and transparent GIFs!

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