I'd love to find out what happened to that tree. Whether it was left aboard or brought back. Several years ago, I was at Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Al and they had one of the water tanks that suvived the re-entry and impact of its landing in Australia. It was in pretty good shape, the fiberglass casing was not badly damaged...considering.
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A little trivia. Even though he didn't fly aboard Skylab, Thomas K. Mattingly II was the last one from the Apollo spacecraft era to fly in space. Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott are the only Skylab crewmembers to have flown aboard the Space Shuttle. Lousma was the last one of those. He is also, technicaly, the youngest person to have ever flown in space. He was born on February 29th, 1936. If one was REALLY ticky about it, he was just over 9 years old when he went to Skylab.