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4/ a "wet lab" or "wet workshop" is a fuel tank that has a mesh floor built into it. The mesh floor lets fuel drain through. Once you reach orbit (and the orange EFTs could easily reach orbit; the shuttle went through extra steps to burn them up in the atmosphere) you >>>
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5/ open up a door in the exterior and move equipment into the now empty tank, then pressurize it with air. Voila. Massive space station.
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6/ In just a SINGLE space shuttle launch we could have had a space station in orbit with ~ 2x the volume of the ISS We could have done this in 1981 Imagine that - a (fully American) space station in 1981, twice the size of the shared space station that we actually have in 2021
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7/ We actually had 135 launches. Not all were to the same orbit, but imagine that just 60 of them had sent their tanks to the new station. We've have a space station today with 120x the volume of the ISS. Instead of a crew of 10, maybe a crew of 200, maybe growing food & air
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8/ Jobs program, pure and simple.https://twitter.com/VeloMontaigne/status/1352217475178524673 …
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10/ Here's video from the inside of Skylab in 1973https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLbxhNeSkw8 …
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11/ cross section, showing three floorspic.twitter.com/48UO3fuHCb
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This is tangentially related, but apparently the Soviets built underground missile command posts in the shape of ICBM's so they could easily build the protective silo infrastructure, and the things worked fine:https://twitter.com/krakek1/status/1349705941550305287 …
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