The 1970s saw the final five flights of the Apollo Program including three uses of the Marshall-developed Lunar Roving Vehicle for the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions. The LRV allowed astronauts to expand the amount of science conducted on the lunar surface. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was a major breakthrough for international collaboration and the final launch of a Saturn vehicle.
The United States’ first space station, Skylab, and its three crewed missions provided Marshall with a considerable opportunity to learn to solve the problems of living and working in space. The launch of three High Energy Astronomy Observatories near the end of the decade expanded Marshall’s role in the development of scientific missions.
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