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This issue of the journal is an outgrowth of a special session on libration-point missions that was held at the AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference in Boston, Massachusetts on August 10–12, 1998. The special session commemorated the 20th anniversary of the launch of the first libration-point spacecraft, the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3). Five of the six papers presented at this special session are contained in this volume. These five articles are augmented by two reprints of historical importance and three new publications on libration points.

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Farquhar, R.W. Introduction. J of Astronaut Sci 49, 1–9 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03546334

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