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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12/ One launch (which took 1 day) gave us a wet workshop in the 1970s with 12,417 cubic feet (351.6 m3) of habitable volume. 30 launches over 10 years gave us ISS with a habitable volume of 32,333 cu ft (915.6 m3 ) One shuttle tank has a vol of 19,744 cu ft (559.1 m 3)
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Skylab launched dry on a Saturn V with the equipment already installed. Much better than trying to install gear on an ET while wearing spacesuits. If it wasn't for Shuttle we'd've given Skylab a boost to keep it flying, and upgraded it over the years.
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yep, I know all about this. Skylab was DESIGNED as a wet workshop, but was flown as a dry workshop.
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