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From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Skylab [was Re: Apollo 6]
Message-ID: <3742@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Nov 90 14:26:53 GMT
References: <9951@bunny.GTE.COM>
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From article <9951@bunny.GTE.COM>, by engtech@GTE.COM (Abe Lockman):
> about skylab.  It says the skylab was an S-IVB with the ATM
> (Converted MOL)  and it was launched on an S-2.  
ATM is Apollo Telescope mount. MOL was USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory,
nothing to do with Skylab as such. ATM *was* originally designed as a
converted LM, I don't know whether the real one used any LM hardware
(plans to use an LM ascent stage as a control cabin were dropped).
> 	So did they short stack an Saturn 5, just 1st and 2nd
> stages, and then use teh skylab to top the stack?
Yes. Needed a new shroud to cover Skylab.  

Nick
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