Felxibility of Apollo design (was Space station future adrift (Soyuz purchase crisis) )

I have in
front of me right now, a drawing that Owen left me, of the "Radial
"Module All-Rigid Space Station" that one of the draftsment did for him
in 1962; designed to be launched on a Saturn V, using a ciyple of
"6-man ferry-logistics vehicles" docked to it, basically an Apollo
CSM. Owen also prepared (and patented) a design for a trans-Mars space
station based on this design (I think that one was planning on using a
NERVA upper stage to push it out to Mars and back again)---this was
actually released by one of the commercial model companies as a
plastic kid's model in the 1960s, as "NASA's Space Station."


MPC's Pilgrim Observer. One of the best fictional spacecraft kits ever
made.

Gene