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While Jack Schmitt was in training for his flight to the Moon, most of the other scientist-astronauts were busily engaged in preparing for the Skylab programme. Skylab was the made-over Apollo Applications Program, having evolved from plans to use converted Apollo lunar hardware in order to create America’s first space station. It would become a platform for research in solar science, stellar astronomy, space physics, Earth resources, life and material sciences. Skylab would be where Americans first learned the skills and realities of truly living and working in space.
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(2007). Laboratories in the Sky. In: NASA’s Scientist-Astronauts. Springer Praxis Books. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49387-9_8
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