In-orbit Serviced Satellites
From his early days with NASA, Cepollina has worked on engineering solutions for satellites and spacecraft. In the late 1960s, satellite failure was becoming a significant problem, and engineers at NASA, including Cepollina, began working on a new type of Multimission Modular Craft. As described by Cepollina, these crafts would have swappable parts and could potentially be fixed easily by space-walking astronauts.
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