Editing Skylab (section)

=== Dry workshop ===
Design work continued over the next two years, in an era of shrinking budgets.<ref name="mc670127">{{cite news|agency=[[United Press International|UPI]]|work=The Mid-Cities Daily News|title=Space Hut Workshop Planned|page=8 |date=January 27, 1967 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OEhgAAAAIBAJ&pg=3540,1271581&dq=space+hut+is+an&hl=en|via=[[Google News]]}}</ref> (NASA sought US$450 million for Apollo Applications in fiscal year 1967, for example, but received US$42 million.)<ref>{{harvp|Heppenheimer|1999|pp=64–65}}.</ref> In August 1967, the agency announced that the lunar mapping and base construction missions examined by the AAP were being canceled. Only the Earth-orbiting missions remained, namely the [[Orbital Workshop]] and [[Apollo Telescope Mount]] [[solar observatory]]. The success of [[Apollo 8]] in December 1968, launched on the third flight of a Saturn V, made it likely that one would be available to launch a dry workshop.<ref>{{harvp|Heppenheimer|1999|p=66}}.</ref> Later, several Moon missions were canceled as well, originally to be [[Canceled Apollo missions|Apollo missions 18 through 20]]. The cancellation of these missions freed up three Saturn V boosters for the AAP program. Although this would have allowed them to develop von Braun's original S-II-based mission, by this time so much work had been done on the S-IV-based design that work continued on this baseline. With the extra power available, the wet workshop was no longer needed;<ref>{{harvp|Benson|Compton|1983|pp=109–110}}.</ref> the S-IC and S-II lower stages could launch a "dry workshop", with its interior already prepared, directly into orbit.