Randall Clague wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 20:27:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> That was Deke's thinking. Launch and reentry were fairly safe because > >> they were short (though there was that problem on Apollo 18 reentry: > >> RCS fuel vapor does NOT belong in the crew cabin). He had less > >> confidence in cruise mode because of Gemini 8 and Apollo 13. > > > > Nit: You must mean "Apollo 17". > > Nope: Apollo 18, the Apollo half of Apollo-Soyuz. I don't know if > that's what NASA calls it, but I've long called it Apollo 18, because > if you talk about Apollo-Soyuz, and you're talking about the vehicle > rather than the mission, are you talking about the Apollo or the > Soyuz?
As noted, there were three Apollo flights to Skylab before the Apollo-Soyuz flight... that would make that one "Apollo 21". Only problem is "Apollo 18" through "Apollo 20" have already official designations for what would have been the last three lunar missions of the originally planned series; I don't think those designations got re-used for the Skylab flights. (That program, BTW, was originally called "Apollo Applications"...) -dave w _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
