The Skylab Landing In Australia
In May of 1973, Skylab launched. It was designed to be temporary, and NASA engineers planned to decommission it nine years later. However, Skylab came crashing down after six years and landed in Australia like a cannonball (which wasn’t part of the plan as well). In 1978, Skylab started failing because of the rapidly decaying orbit of the station. Months later, NASA fired booster rockets at the station, with the intention of bringing it down in the Indian Ocean. However, the shattered station landed in Australia instead, in the remote town of Esperance.
The Skylab Landing In Australia
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
In 2011, a 46-foot tsunami caused by the Tohoku earthquake flooded the nuclear reactors, circulating pumps, and emergency generators at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan. Because of this, cooling was lost in the reactor core. This resulted in three hydrogen explosions and three nuclear meltdowns. For three straight days, radioactive contamination occurred. The radiation caused cancer in one person, who has died from it. The hydrogen explosions injured sixteen people, and two workers were brought to the hospital for treatment of radiation burns. The plant has been shut down for good.
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
