Orbital Workshop at Astronautix
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs
Tag: living and working in space
CSM/OW
AAP Cluster
Parasol Thermal Shield
74-SL-7200-244A
Skylab
LORL (Lockheed)
LORL
Three-armed LORL is shown in this artist’s sketch. Center hub, which contains parking area for several space ferries, does not rotate and thus remains weightless. Under the parking area is a laboratory for study of weightlessness. The three arms rotate around the hub to create artificial gravity. Cutaway of one arm shows it to contain a series of rooms for other laboratory requirements and studies.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
LORL at Astronautix
Image credit: North American Aviation
Image source: Numbers Station
LORL (Lockheed)
Three-armed LORL is shown in this artist’s sketch. Center hub, which contains parking area for several space ferries, does not rotate and thus remains weightless. Under the parking area is a laboratory for study of weightlessness. The three arms rotate around the hub to create artificial gravity. Cutaway of one arm shows it to contain a series of rooms for other laboratory requirements and studies.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
LORL at Astronautix
Image credit: Lockheed
Image source: Numbers Station
Moon Town
Lockheed’s Extended Lunar Operations was an extensive lunar base development program that would (after Ranger, Surveyor, and Apollo) have begun with the delivery of ELO modules by Saturn C-5s in 1969, an interim lunar exploratory base constructed in mid 1971 and a permanent base complete by 1975.
Image credit: Lockheed
Image source:Â Mike Acs
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