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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Intelsat salvage mission
Message-ID: <1990Aug12.005525.5284@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug9.051409.16353@zoo.toronto.edu> <13567@ulysses.att.com> <1990Aug11.033954.12002@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug11.195433.1913@athena.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 90 00:55:25 GMT

In article <1990Aug11.195433.1913@athena.mit.edu> mmachlis@athena.mit.edu (Matthew A Machlis) writes:
>What do you mean, "during space-station operations, something NASA hass
>yet to attempt?"  Has everyone forgotten about Skylab? ...

Just about. :-)  Skylab never attempted to be an operational station the
way Mir and the later Salyuts did, and in particular was not capable of
being resupplied in orbit.
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