Apollo Applications Program

…strategies as part of an Apollo Applications Program, which would exploit vehicles built for the Moon race for more general orbital activities.

The only element of NASA’s Apollo Applications Program that did not succumb to Nixon’s budgetary cuts was Skylab. Its plan, which called for a ready-to-use scientific laboratory that had been prefabricated on the ground, replaced the earlier concept of outfitting the tank of a spent rocket in space. Apollo spacecraft…