Dec 202008
Found in the Boeing Historical archive some years back was a piece of artwork dated 12/20/1965 illustrating a “work pod” for orbital use. It is a remarkable design for two reasons:
1) It looks fairly reasonable
3) It looks a *lot* like the EVA pods from “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
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>It looks a *lot* like the EVA pods from “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
i know that Kubrik look in a lot Space flight study almost for 2 years
for his pet project “2001”
can it be that this Boeing EVA pods was one of the thing He saw ?
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Stick some propellers on it, and it would look like a minisub.
It’s not a bad design at all though – certainly beats the Bottle Suit with that rocket engine firing right above your head.
how does the operator look behind himself to use the ‘docking view port’?
> how does the operator look behind himself to use the ‘docking view port’?
Probably just turns around. The inside of the pod looks pretty spacious, a situation aided by having the operator just in his underwear.
Presumably there’d be another, simpler set of controls behind the pilot, for use in docking.
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