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Re: YASID: Moon in a very low orbit.

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In <d5oah9Fgba8U1@mid.individual.net> Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> writes:

>If I recall, the original plan for the space shuttle was that the
>second mission would be to push Skylab into a higher orbit.  But there
>were bureaucratic delays and Skylab was gone before the shuttle
>arrived.

>First mission, of course, was to reach orbit and survive re-entry.

        'Original' is kind of a stretch.  But it was figured that an 
early Shuttle flight would have the mission of raising Skylab's orbit, 
with the possibility that it might be restocked and used for its own 
merits.  After the Skylab 4/3 flight in 1974 the space station was 
put in an orbit that, projections indicated, it should be able to keep 
for a decade or so.  And at the time, the first shuttle flights were 
forecast for around 1979, which should provide plenty of margin for 
unexpected developments.  Had upper-atmospheric models been better, 
that is, if they had been able to use the data Skylab collected, then 
just how thin the margin was would have been appreciated.  

        One sketchily developed plan for the use of Apollo hardware 
in case the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project collapsed was to send that Apollo 
to Skylab for a three-week-or-so mission.  This surely would have 
included a boost to the station's orbit.  But this Skylab backup plan 
wasn't developed far, in part because having too clear a plan in case 
the Soviets pulled out would increase the chance of the Soviets pulling 
out.  

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