(Greg Kuperberg) wrote in message ...
In article ,
Rand Simberg wrote:


Now maybe you can tell me who went to bat before Congress to launch
the extra space station and five extra Saturns, and who in Congress
obstinately sacrificed them regardless. If so, I would learn something
and I would happily stand corrected.

Senator Lowell Weicker(R-CT) did.

See my article "Skylab B: Unflown Missions, Lost Opportunities in
Quest magazine, vol. 5, no. 4, 1996, pg. 12-21 for the whole Skylab B
story.