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...current king of the hill in aerospace is McDonnell Douglas, which is on schedule with its DC-10 Trijet program and the lucrative F-15 military jet fighter contract. The company's astronautics division is hard at work on projects including NASA's skylab program and the Army's Spartan missile for the anti-ballistic missile system...
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...Braun also revealed that NASA is developing a Skylab, or permanently orbiting space station and laboratory, which would carry on earth-related research...
...scientists, who have only begun to tackle some of the questions raised by the findings of the successful Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions. Perhaps the only consolation for NASA is that the money saved from the two canceled shots (at least $350 million) may be applied to its Skylab program, which, beginning in late 1972, will place a crew of three into earth orbit for 28 days to determine man's ability to survive and work in space for long periods of time...
...first U.S. space station, Skylab 1, which is scheduled for orbiting with three men on board in late 1972, will not require a space shuttle. The launch vehicle will be a Saturn 5 booster left over from the Apollo program. In fact, NASA officials hinted last week that they may cancel next year's Apollo 15 moon flight and possibly one of the subsequent moon shots to free more Saturn 5s for space stations. But ultimately only space shuttles offer a really economical method of provisioning and rotating the crews of larger stations such as the twelve-man orbiting...