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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? |
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