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    NASA - Large Space Telescope (1972)

    This is one of the steps on the road to the Hubble Space Telescope. At this point in the process the telescope contains a lot of Apollo legacy hardware and was designed so that the shuttle could be docked with it to allow maintenance and instrument swap-outs to take place in a shirtsleeve...
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    • apollo applications program astronomy cold war early 1970s nasa nixon administration space age space race united states
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
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    Space Program Options open to President Nixon

    http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/ch4.htm One alternative, at $3.5 billion per year, eliminated NERVA and stopped production of Saturn V and Apollo spacecraft. This option, however, would maintain a vigorous program in piloted flight, featuring Skylab with three visits as well as six additional...
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    • apollo applications program apollo program cccp cold war deep space probes early 1970s late 1960s nasa nixon administration offworld colonies space age space race space station
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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