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Space Rocket History #390 – Skylab – Pre-history – MOL Part 4 & Extending Apollo
On June 7th 1969, General Stewart ordered all work on Gemini B, the Titan IIIM and the MOL spacesuit, to cease and to cancel or curtail all other contracts....
Space Rocket History #389 – Skylab – Pre-history – MOL Part 3
A planning document depicted 12-man and 40-man stations, both with self-defense capability. It described the 40-man, Y-shaped station as a “spaceborne...
Space Rocket History #388 – Skylab – Pre-history – MOL Part 2
Strangely enough the MOL astronauts only knew of the cover story that the program would be a space laboratory for military experiments and did not learn...
Space Rocket History #387 – Skylab – Pre-history – Dyna-Soar & MOL
NASA feasibility studies determined that a research space laboratory could be placed in orbit by 1967. However, to fund such a project it had to be...
Space Rocket History #386 – Skylab – Pre-history
A scant five months after Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean in December of 1972, NASA launched Skylab to begin a new phase of American manned...
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