nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) (11/05/90)
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 -- Dr. Nick Watkins, Space & Plasma Physics Group, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, E.Sussex, BN1 9QH, ENGLAND JANET: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk BITNET: nickw%syma.sussex.ac.uk@uk.ac