Skylab Is Coming
The Skylab space station launches in May and the first crew follows in June. After Apollo, this is what's next for American human spaceflight.
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Tag: 1973
Where Do We Go From Here?
New Year's Day 1973. The Apollo program is over. Skylab is coming — a space station, American men in orbit for months at a time. A Space Shuttle is being designed. We'll be back on the Moon by 1985, surely. Maybe we'll be on Mars by the 1990s. (I suspect…
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