Anyway, another nugget from the Skylab re-entry - some newspaper on the West Coast offered a $10,000 prize for the first person to show up at their office with Spacelab debris. However, you had 72 hours from landfall to get it there.
So some 17-year-old kid from Australia ended up winning the prize (I think he was related to Olivia Newton-John) by hopping on a plane without a suitcase or a passport (you could do that in those days) and walked away with ten large.
I was there. I graduated in 77. You are right about the pictures in the landfill. LOL
LOL One of my greatest fears is that a picture of me will surface one day of me wearing bell-bottom pants and the whole bit.