On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 22:51:42 -0800, David Weinshenker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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"...) Apollo Applications missions were not consistently named, is the problem. The Skylab Apollos were called Skylab 2, 3, and 4, not Apollo 18, 19, and 20, which as you note, were canceled lunar missions. Per the World Space Flight Index (http://www.worldspaceflight.com), "the Apollo portion of ASTP is often referred to as Apollo 18," which is my usage here. I'm not trying to be revisionist; if someone comes up with an unambiguous short name for the Apollo portion of Apollo-Soyuz, I'll adopt it. -R -- Every complex, difficult problem has a simple, easy solution - which is wrong. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
