SimNASA Announces Project SkyLab/Newton

SimNASA announced the official opening of Project SkyLab/Newton. "As the SimNASA Apollo Program comes to a close, it is time for the organization to move forward with the master plan laid out in the recent State of SimNASA document from the Administrator. The next manned spaceflight program which SimNASA will engage in is Project Skylab. This will be a program similar to that in the NASA historical record by the same name. Skylab was the first NASA attempt to develop a manned space-based science platform for scientific study. While it suffered some initial difficulties, Skylab went on to be a major American triumph and paved the way for NASA