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skylab with lunar module concept
I saw a drawing in a book a while back that showed skylab with a lunar
module docked to it were they thinking of putting one in lunar orbit or use it to fly lunar missions from earth orbit? |
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bradhst wrote:
I saw a drawing in a book a while back that showed skylab with a lunar module docked to it were they thinking of putting one in lunar orbit or use it to fly lunar missions from earth orbit? Some of the early designs for the Apollo Telescope Mount were derived from the LM (believe the final design was not). There were Apollo Applications Program concepts for beyond-LEO Saturn workshops, but they were all gone by the time the program was named "Skylab". So if what you saw was really a "Skylab", then no, it wasn't intended for lunar missions. |
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skylab with lunar module concept
bradhst wrote:
I saw a drawing in a book a while back that showed skylab with a lunar module docked to it were they thinking of putting one in lunar orbit or use it to fly lunar missions from earth orbit? That was part of the original "Wetlab" (the interior of the space station would be filled with LOX and LH2 during ascent, and the astronauts would install extra equipment in it after it was in orbit with its tanks empty) concept to be launched on a Saturn IB; the Lunar Module would have the solar telescopes mounted in its descent module, and use the ascent stage as a control room for the astronauts to operate them. The system that extended the LM's landing legs would be used to deploy four large solar panels. By the time it ended up on Skylab, its Lunar Module origins were no longer recognizable: http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Fu...elescope_Mount Pat |
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On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:50:27 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote: bradhst wrote: I saw a drawing in a book a while back that showed skylab with a lunar module docked to it were they thinking of putting one in lunar orbit or use it to fly lunar missions from earth orbit? That was part of the original "Wetlab" (the interior of the space station would be filled with LOX and LH2 during ascent, and the astronauts would install extra equipment in it after it was in orbit with its tanks empty) concept to be launched on a Saturn IB; the Lunar Module would have the solar telescopes mounted in its descent module, and use the ascent stage as a control room for the astronauts to operate them. The system that extended the LM's landing legs would be used to deploy four large solar panels. By the time it ended up on Skylab, its Lunar Module origins were no longer recognizable: http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Fu...elescope_Mount Pat Was the wet lab the station used in the movie Marooned? |
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skylab with lunar module concept
I believe that it was the dry lab concept that was portrait in the movie.
bradhst wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:50:27 -0800, Pat Flannery wrote: bradhst wrote: I saw a drawing in a book a while back that showed skylab with a lunar module docked to it were they thinking of putting one in lunar orbit or use it to fly lunar missions from earth orbit? That was part of the original "Wetlab" (the interior of the space station would be filled with LOX and LH2 during ascent, and the astronauts would install extra equipment in it after it was in orbit with its tanks empty) concept to be launched on a Saturn IB; the Lunar Module would have the solar telescopes mounted in its descent module, and use the ascent stage as a control room for the astronauts to operate them. The system that extended the LM's landing legs would be used to deploy four large solar panels. By the time it ended up on Skylab, its Lunar Module origins were no longer recognizable: http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Fu...elescope_Mount Pat Was the wet lab the station used in the movie Marooned? |
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skylab with lunar module concept
bradhst wrote:
Was the wet lab the station used in the movie Marooned? IIRC it was. Pat |
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Obviousman wrote:
I believe that it was the dry lab concept that was portrait in the movie. Found photos of the model of it from the movie: http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehicl...aroonedTop.htm They've got the interior floor at a 90 degree angle from the way Skylab did it: http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehicl.../mskylab01.jpg No LM based ATM on it though. (That's from he http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehicl...dex.htm#icarus Which has lots of interesting sci-fi movie models) Pat |
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