Son of Transhab?

Look at this...

http://www.projectconstellation.us/a...jpg&fullsize=1

Looks like Boeing is designing this as part of the new lunar
initiative. It could easily be added on to the space station as a hab
module. I now predict the following...

Node 3 will be used as a makeshift Hab module with "cots" for two
crewmembers (one or two more can sleep in the two Soyuzes that will
have to be parked to the station. After CEV is deployed, additional
crew members could move in there (the Russians may continue to keep
one Soyuz attached to ISS after CEV is deployed for national pride,
though I see no reason financially and logisticly to do so, other than
to show their independence).

Then, a few years later, this Son of Transhab, as I now call it, will
be deployed to ISS, attached to Node 3, as its new Hab module. Boeing
will sell NASA on the idea by using the logic "for a little more,
we'll build two... one for the moon (as is its cause for development)
and the extra one you can use for expanded station crew capability. I
believe NASA will buy it, but the dtermining question is will
Congress?

On 2004-07-30, Peter Altschuler wrote:

Look at this...

http://www.projectconstellation.us/a...jpg&fullsize=1

Looks like Boeing is designing this as part of the new lunar
initiative. It could easily be added on to the space station as a hab
module. I now predict the following...

I think I've seen that picture, or something very similar before,
once shortly after the whole Exploration Programme was announced,
and once years ago (Probably when SEI was announced, but the memory
is hazy that far back)


Iain

(Peter Altschuler) wrote:
Looks like Boeing is designing this as part of the new lunar
initiative. It could easily be added on to the space station as a hab
module. I now predict the following...

sigh If the new lunar initiative becomes everyones justification
for funding their own particular sandbox, we are in real trouble.

D.
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"Derek Lyons" wrote in message
...
(Peter Altschuler) wrote:
Looks like Boeing is designing this as part of the new lunar
initiative. It could easily be added on to the space station as a hab
module. I now predict the following...

sigh If the new lunar initiative becomes everyones justification
for funding their own particular sandbox, we are in real trouble.

While I agree with the general sentiment, I feel that using inflatable
technology may be perfectly justified technology. This technology has been
tested fairly extensively on the ground. The only thing you'd really need
is a long duration test flight. Stick one in orbit with a camera and a few
other sensors (pressure, temperature, strain gauges, and etc), and leave it
there for several years to see how it holds up in space.

As has been pointed out in other threads, the expensive part of ISS modules
isn't the aluminum can, but the stuff inside. My guess is that the same
would hold true for an inflatable structure.

Jeff
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"Jeff Findley" wrote:


"Derek Lyons" wrote in message
...
(Peter Altschuler) wrote:
Looks like Boeing is designing this as part of the new lunar
initiative. It could easily be added on to the space station as a hab
module. I now predict the following...

sigh If the new lunar initiative becomes everyones justification
for funding their own particular sandbox, we are in real trouble.

While I agree with the general sentiment, I feel that using inflatable
technology may be perfectly justified technology.

But then avoid providing that justification, just as Peter in his
original post.

D.
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