I was born in 1971. Apollo was a distant ("distant" ... to a single digit kid), Skylab crashed down, and the Shuttle kept getting delayed. Circa 1980 it felt like space was over.https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1189909550918443008 …
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They used up the last of the Saturn Vs that were left over from Apollo to throw Skylab up, I believe. We haven't even come close to building anything with that kind of lift capacity since...
yes, I know (tho I think the one at Huntsville AL might have been flight ready but never flew) orthogonal to the point I was making about keeping skylab up
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