On This Day:  July 11

1979 -- Sky­lab falls to Earth, pep­per­ing west­ern Aus­tralia with de­bris. The agen­cy be­ing per­pet­u­al­ly short on funds, NASA's A$400 lit­ter­ing fine re­mained un­paid un­til it was fundraised by U.S. cit­i­zens al­most thir­ty years lat­er.