Called a "House in Space," Skylab was an innovative program that used a converted Saturn V launch vehicle propellant tank as a space station habitat. It was launched in 1973 fully equipped with provisions for three separate missions of three astronauts each. The size and lift capability of the Saturn V enabled a large diameter habitat, solar telescope, multiple docking adaptor, and airlock to be placed on-orbit with a single launch. Today, the envisioned Space Launch System (SLS) offers similar size and lift capabilities that are ideally suited for a Skylab type mission. An envisioned Skylab II mission would employ the same propellant tank concept; however serve a different mission. In this case, the SLS upper stage hydrogen tank is used as a Deep Space Habitat (DSH) for NASA s planned missions to asteroids, Earth-Moon Lagrangian point and Mars.


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    Titel :

    SKYLAB II - Making a Deep Space Habitat from a Space Launch System Propellant Tank


    Beteiligte:
    Griffin, Brand N. (Autor:in) / Smitherman, David (Autor:in) / Kennedy, Kriss J. (Autor:in) / Toups, Larry (Autor:in) / Gill, Tracy (Autor:in) / Howe, A. Scott (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    AIAA Space 2012 ; 2012 ; Pasadena, MD, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2012-01-03


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    SKYLAB II MAKING A DEEP SPACE HABITAT FROM A SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM PROPELLANT TANK

    Griffin, B.N. / Smitherman, D. / Kennedy, K.J. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2012


    Skylab II Making a Deep Space Habitat from a Space Launch System Propellant Tank

    Griffin, Brand / Smitherman, David / Kennedy, Kriss et al. | AIAA | 2012


    SKYLAB II - Making a Deep Space Habitat from a Space Launch System Propellant Tank

    B. N. Griffin / D. Smitherman / K. J. Kennedy et al. | NTIS | 2012