Group work to resore Skylab mockup

In its glory days, the aluminum-and-steel hulk that sits outside the Alabama space museum was a training ground for astronauts who flew in America's first space station.

Today, the full-size training mock-up of Skylab is slowly rotting away in a parking lot, it has flecks of gray paint from a wall dotting its mesh floor, and a bird's nest resting in an equipment compartment. Restoring Skylab mockup