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== Depictions in film == A minor storyline of the 1986 film ''[[Dogs in Space]]'' is an attempt by characters of the [[Melbourne, Australia|Melbourne]] household to fabricate pieces of Skylab and win a radio station's competition to locate debris from the space station as it fell to earth in Australia. The documentary ''[[Searching for Skylab]]'' was released online in March 2019. It was written and directed by Dwight Steven-Boniecki and was partly [[crowdfunded]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Dwight Steven-Boniecki |year=2019 |title=Searching for Skylab, Americas Forgotten Triumph β The Film |url=https://searchingforskylab.com/}}</ref> The [[alternate history]] Apple TV+ original series ''[[For All Mankind (TV series)|For All Mankind]]'' (2019) depicts the use of the space station in the first episode of the second season, surviving to the 1980s and coexisting with the [[Space Shuttle]] program in the alternate timeline.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-021921a-for-all-mankind-appletv-season2.html |title='For All Mankind' Season 2 blasts off with nods to NASA's shuttle past |date=2021-02-19 |website=collectSpace |publisher= |access-date=2021-05-09}}</ref> In the 2011 film ''Skylab'', a family gathers in France and waits for the station to fall out of orbit. It was directed by Julie Delpy.<ref>{{cite web |date=2011 |title=Skylab |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638350/ |access-date=2021-09-09 |website=IMDb |publisher=}}</ref> The 2021 Indian film [[Skylab (film)|''Skylab'']] depicts fictitious incidents in a [[Telangana]] village preceding the disintegration of the space station.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Dundoo|first=Sangeetha Devi|date=2021-11-30|title=The curious case of Skylab space station crash and a new Telugu film|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/vishvak-khanderao-discusses-how-the-telugu-film-skylab-stemmed-from-incidents-in-karimnagar-in-1979/article37772268.ece|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> The 2024 series ''[[Last Days of the Space Age]]'' is set in 1979 [[Western Australia]], during Skylab's reentry near Perth.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-21 |title=Cameras roll on Disney+ local dramedy Last Days of the Space Age {{!}} TV Tonight |url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/07/cameras-roll-on-disney-local-dramedy-last-days-of-the-space-age.html |access-date=2024-09-20 |website=tvtonight.com.au |language=en-AU}}</ref> <gallery mode="packed"> File:Skylab Latrine.jpg|The waste disposal equipment in the backup Skylab at the [[National Air and Space Museum]]. File:Skylab mockup Smithsonian NASM.jpg|A mannequin in the backup Skylab at the [[Smithsonian Institution]] [[National Air and Space Museum]]. File:Skylab2 1974 Issue-10c.jpg|Skylab [[U.S. Space Exploration History on U.S. Stamps|commemorative stamp]], issue of 1974. The commemorative stamp reflects initial repairs to the station, including the parasol sunshade. File:Skylab labeled.jpg|Illustration of Skylab configuration with docked [[command and service module]] File:USNS Vanguard.jpg|[[USNS Mission San Fernando|''Vanguard'' (T-AGM-19)]] seen as a NASA Skylab tracking ship. Note the tracking radar and telemetry antennas. File:RobbinsMedallionSkylabByPhilKonstantin.jpg|[[NASA space-flown Gemini and Apollo medallions#Robbins medallions|Robbins medallions]] issued for Skylab missions. File:Space Center Houston Skylab wardroom.jpg|[[Space Center Houston]] Skylab 1-G Trainer mannequin. File:Skylab innen.jpg|The main module [[S-IVB]] is a section of the [[Saturn V]] rocket. </gallery>
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