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...early as 1974. The most likely first step, Americans and Soviet planners decided, will be to dock an Apollo spacecraft with a Russian space station similar to the Salyut now in orbit. Following this, the space scientists envision a link-up between a Soyuz spacecraft and an American Skylab scheduled for launch...
...NASA seems unable effectively to rebut its critics. Because of the budget cuts, NASA will be able to send up only two more moon missions; originally there were to be another five. Plans to land an unmanned probe on Mars have been set back to 1975. The launching of Skylab, the first U.S. orbital space station, is unlikely to occur before 1973. Cape Kennedy's director, Kurt Debus, explained NASA's problem on the eve of Apollo 15's launch: Space is enormously important to the future well-being of the U.S., he said, but we have...
Resignations. U.S. astronauts had far less reason to be pleased with their Government. As a result of congressional budget slashing, only two more Apollo missions are scheduled after next month's flight to the moon, and the highly touted Skylab program-comparable to the Soviets' Salyut series-has been cut from six to three missions...
These reductions mean that even under the best of circumstances only 18 of the 45 highly trained men still active in the astronaut program have any hopes of getting a space flight in the next few years-nine on the three remaining Apollo shots and nine on the three Skylab missions, scheduled to begin in 1973. Many astronauts have already quit in disgust. The latest: Walt Cunningham, a member of the first manned Apollo flight, who coupled his resignation last week with a sharp blast at what he sees as growing U.S. indifference to space ventures. Within the astronaut ranks...
Though Salyut is only a third of the size of the proposed U.S. Skylab space station, scheduled to be launched in 1973, NASA officials were clearly impressed by the Soviet achievement. The feat stirred less comment in budget-conscious Washington. With the Apollo program coming quickly to an end-the third from last U.S. moon shot will lift off in July-Congress and the Administration seem unwilling to engage the Soviet Union in any new space races. Anticipating bigger and better Soviet space stations, U.S. space officials point out that it now seems more likely than ever that the next...