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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    Title :

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


    Contributors:

    Conference:

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


    Publication date :

    2012-01-03


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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