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Well, there were plans to use Skylab as living quarters and as a storage facility for crews working on the proposed 1980s space station (Space Station Freedom).

I also read a proposal to...attached a booster to Skylab that could send it to the Moon and park it in Lunar orbit! The idea being that it could serve as a base for further moon shots.

Also, the contractors built more than one Skylab. There was the one that was launched, a backup (now in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum), and one for use as a training article. There was a proposal to dock the backup with the Skylab that was in orbit and make one big station.

SO much money has been wasted on shit over the years-- a bunch of studies about crap that tends to benefit no one-- the government could have put that into a real space program. One that would include another series of Lunar landings a lunar base, and a trip to Mars and beyond with nuclear-ion, or antimatter powered craft.

in fact, I seem to recall someone about 10-15 years ago posing the question in a poll" would you be willing to give ,say 30-50 dollars more in taxes a year, for a revitalized space program, that would include a Lunar base and landing, and a Mars landing, IF you could be guaranteed all of the money would go for the program and not to coffers??"

I think the majority said "yes".