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Skylab Station: an alternate historical take

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After the Apollo Program ended, the United States had Skylab, that country's first and only space station until it became a partner to the International Space Station several decades later. There were two Skylab Orbital Workshops built, but only one was flown. In this alternate timeline, a second order of Saturn Vs was placed and NASA received just sufficient funding to allow both workshops to be orbited; shortly thereafter, a core Power Node was sent into orbit, allowing the two workshops to dock and form the Skylab Station. When no more Apollo CSMs were constructed a small shuttlecraft was built to serve as a lifeboat, and when the Space Shuttle came online a few more modules were added. This is the final configuration of Skylab Station, through its deorbiting in 1986.

Note: I only just realized I placed the Apollo Telescope Mount in the wrong place; it should not be atop the primary hull of Skylab A, but rather the secondary hull, just to the Mount's left. Being on the primary hull would be quite impossible given how Skylab A was housed inside its Saturn V launch fairing. But just roll with it.
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does this reality use the saturn space-shuttle consept of a spaceshuttle ontop of the saturn v ?