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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354341" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sky-Lab</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sky-lab, Sky-lab, the air did reverberate, <br> Rich or poor; young or old; literate or not: <br>All did discuss, the sky-lab's state, <br> And the dreadful destiny of mankind's lot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world was taut with tension, <br> Over NASA's debacle at exploration—<br>And was gripped with apprehension, <br> Of the faltering sky-lab's disintegration.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under one great mantle of terror<br> Rocked the world with mute fear; <br>It chid America for the unpardonable error, <br> In the computation of the space-craft's steer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Panic-stricken, some did flee, <br> In the fold of their kith and kin to be: <br>From place to place, from country to country, <br> People fled, to avoid the falling debris.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From dawn till dusk, to the Lord Almighty, <br> True offers of reverential prayers, <br>To save the world from the impending calamity, <br> Were made to ward off their fears! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But some were stoical and calm, <br> Undisturbed at the space-craft's tract: <br>And some were sorry for the harm, <br> That the world would, one day contract.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Universe, Sun and Earth, to scan, <br> The sky-lab was sent aloft in seventy three: <br>Through many a thousand pictures, did them span, <br> Till from man, the shackles did it free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Envisaged, for ten years to whirl around, <br> The sky-lab through solar panels, energy drew: <br>Dark- spots, in the Sun, suddenly did abound, <br> And the lab, beyond plans, it threw! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Towards its plunge did streak the monster, <br> And the count- down to crash did tick, <br>While for the lab's watery grave did NASA manoeuvre, <br> Thudding hearts, to their wireless sets, did stick.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At sixteen twenty two GMT on July Eleventh, <br> Crashed the sky-lab, raining down a fiery debris<br>Into the ocean, off Australia, near Perth, <br> Of life inflicting, not even an injury! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sigh of relief the world did heave, <br> And to NASA three cheers did send—<br>The horrible disaster, when it did retrieve<br> While finding no funds the lab to mend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There now has arisen the urgent need, <br> For signing an international code—<br>Space-crafts o'er which Nations have control indeed, <br> Ought only to be projected—as per this episode.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Chandra+Thiagarajan">Chandra Thiagarajan</a><div class=q>
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 Rich or poor; young or old; literate or not: 
All did discuss, the sky-lab's state, 
 And the dreadful destiny of mankind's lot.

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 Over NASA's debacle at exploration—..."></div>
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