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Slayton passed his examinations with flying colors, and last spring NASA again cleared him. Still, his chances of getting an assignment seemed as remote as the moon. All places on the remaining lunar expeditions were already filled; crews had also been picked for the three earth-orbiting Skylab missions. Only one faint chance remained, and Slayton was not about to miss it for lack of qualifications. Even before Washington and Moscow firmly agreed last year to undertake the historic joint mission, Deke began to study Russian...
Despite gloom at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, there are encouraging signs that man's ability to explore the solar system will not be completely lost. Next year NASA will use one of its surplus Saturns to launch Skylab, a primitive orbital station in which three men will remain in space for up to 56 days. In 1975 a spare Apollo will take part in the greatly publicized linkup with a Soviet Soyuz, an operation that will serve as a gesture of amity between the two great space rivals and also help develop space-rescue techniques. Finally...
Next year there will be the Skylab program, in which nine astronauts will be launched into earth orbit for stays of up to 56 days. That will be over by early...
Under NASA'S austerity program, the only manned spaceflights still on schedule are Apollo 17 in December, three Skylab missions, and the orbital linkup with the Russians in 1975. Deke Slayton, chief of flight-crew operations who was recently returned to flight status after a long battle with a heart irregularity, bluntly sums up the situation: "We have had a surplus [of astronauts] for the past three or four years. The writing is on the wall...
...mission may run as high as $300 million for the U.S., but that is lower than the price tag for an all-U.S. venture of the same magnitude. The mission will also provide indirect benefits for the U.S. space program. With only one more lunar landing and three Skylab missions scheduled, NASA has been desperately looking for new manned space enterprises that will be popular with the public-and earn financial support from Congress. Thus by agreeing to join with their erstwhile rivals in a flight that is bound to stir the imaginations of both U.S. and Soviet citizens...