Apollo Applications Program

American human spaceflight program

Entityhuman spaceflight program NASA programQ618933

Instance of: human spaceflight program
, NASA program
Country: United States

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The Apollo Applications Program (AAP) was created as early as 1966 by NASA headquarters to develop science-based human spaceflight missions using hardware developed for the Apollo program. AAP was the ultimate development of a number of official and unofficial Apollo follow-on projects studied at various NASA labs. However, the AAP's ambitious initial plans became an early casualty when the Johnson Administration declined to support it fully in order to remain within a $100 billion budget. Thus, Fiscal Year 1967 ultimately allocated $80 million to the AAP, compared to NASA's preliminary estimates of $450 million necessary to fund a full-scale AAP program for that year, with over $1 billion being required for FY 1968. The AAP eventually led to Skylab, which absorbed much of what had been developed under Apollo Applications.

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Members / parts: Skylab program
Apollo–Soyuz
Significant event: last flight(July 15, 1975) applies to part: CSM-111
maiden flight(May 25, 1973) applies to part: human spaceflight, Skylab 2
maiden flight(May 14, 1973) applies to part: uncrewed spaceflight, Skylab 1
success quantity: 5
failure quantity: 0
Started: 1966
Ended: 1979
Uses: Saturn V
Apollo/Skylab A7L
Apollo Command and Service Module
Skylab
Soyuz 7K-TM
Soyuz
Saturn IB
Sokol

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