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“There couldn’t be a more exciting time for space,” says a space insider who has lobbied government and now works for a key space flight contractor ... NASA, the Saturn V rocket carrying ...

as well as for launching US space station Skylab in 1973. As for the launch vehicle pictured above, the Saturn IB was the final in a series that began with the Saturn V check-out vehicle, followed by ...

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