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Moon Tourism Possible in 2020
www.prlog.org | Feb 4, 2010
...its safety record compared to the space shuttle. Garriott is also the son of former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, who flew on the Skylab space station and an early space shuttle flight. SpaceX said it could start flying US astronauts into space around 2014...
http://www.prlog.org/10518985-moon-tourism-possible-in-2020.html
NASA Glenn Visitor Center Moves to Great Lakes Science Center
www.prnewswire.com | Jan 28, 2010
...Center, leveraging meaningful artifacts from Glenn's on-site Visitor Center -- such as the Apollo command module used on Skylab 3, which housed three astronauts and equipment needed for re-entry and splashdown -- to create new highly interactive exhibits...
Waiting for The Jury To Return a Verdict
nasawatch.com | Jan 29, 2010
...program beyond Apollo Applications (later renamed Skylab) and had there not been approval of the shuttle...built for 18, 19, and 20) were sacrificed for Skylab with the second Skylab being sacrificed for the shuttle. By the way I...
Astronauts Get Two Christmases in Space
www.space.com | Dec 24, 2009
...station astronauts to spend Christmas in space were the crew of Skylab 4 in 1973. They used food cans to assemble the make-shift...the lunar surface. In 1973, the crew aboard the U.S. Skylab space station constructed a homemade Christmas tree out of empty...
This Year, No Turkey Feast For Shuttle Astronauts
www.npr.org | Nov 26, 2009
...Thanksgiving." Thanksgiving celebrations in outer space have been going on for decades. Back in November of 1973, during the Skylab 4 mission, Ed Gibson spent the holiday spacewalking. "I do remember at the end of the day we did have a Thanksgiving dinner...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120836252&ft=1&f=1001
Space Programs Fueled By Cash
www.aviationweek.com | Jan 28, 2010
...Americans for manned launch services done via a privatized organization. Without that evolution, the ISS would have suffered a Skylab-like fate after the Columbia disaster. Rapid development of capabilities is but one reason to take the commercial path...
Paradigm Shift Ahead for Human Space Flight
nasawatch.com | Jan 25, 2010
...ISS. I see no evidence that the ISS is a better space station than than a simple and much cheaper Skylab space station. We need multiple Skylab-like space stations in the future that can be easily launched into orbit or to a Lagrange point...
The Ares 1 Cancellation Backlash Begins - Before It Is Even Announced
nasawatch.com | Jan 26, 2010
...advocate terminating our support for the ISS after 2015, and using that $2 billion a year to fund new individual HLV launched Skylab-like space stations for NASA, the US military, friendly foreign countries, and the commercial space tourist industry...
Going In Circles Again: America Will Abandon Human Lunar Exploration - And Much More
nasawatch.com | Jan 27, 2010
...sending people to the ISS doesn't count, not in my book, it is tremendously boring, we are no better than we were with Skylab in 1972 Didn't you Ares-bashers ever ever think that we could end up with nothing... zilch... nada... a major...
Bolden Talks About Education
nasawatch.com | Nov 24, 2009
...Author Profile Page Miles Gray | November 24, 2009 9:56 PM | Reply GAS was a great program. Even better, were the Skylab and Shuttle Student Involvement Programs that NASA coordinated with the National Science Teacher's Association in high schools...
