Brian Thorn wrote in
:

On 12 Jan 2004 18:29:00 GMT, Jim Davis
wrote:

Exactly what is the "danger", Ed? There was was a ~5 year gap in US
manned space capability back in the 1970s. The nation didn't miss
it.

SkyLab did.

Arguably the bigger loss was the exodus of many NASA engineers and managers
during the post-Apollo layoffs. NASA lost a lot of institutional memory
during that period.


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