A design effort in 1963 produced a series of space station designs launchable atop the Titan III, much like the Manned Orbiting Lab (available documentation does not call them that, but it’s possible that they might have been meant to fill that role). One of
the designs was the Model 934-103, which was a simple cylindrical can 12 feet in diameter. For servicing and logistics, two Boeing Dyna Soar-derived vehicles could dock. It appears that the station itself is not equipped with an airlock; instead, the airlock to the Dyna Soars would be in the Dyna Soar adapter sections. Presumably the station would still nevertheless be equipped with redundant pressure doors… you’d hate to have your station blow down because of a leak in the seal around a single door.
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“Presumably the station would still nevertheless be equipped with redundant pressure doors… you’d hate to have your station blow down because of a leak in the seal around a single door.”
That would suck.
Reminds me of the UK Hermes MTTF module Columbus. Lamar was ahead of his time. I don’t know about the transfer tunnel through the X-20 aft sections. The Secondary Power Bay, housing the APUs, propellants, and the thermal management system, or the Aft Equipment Bay, with RCS propellants and other systems, would make it a tight squeeze. Unless most of the systems of these bays are moved to the transition adapter section (i.e. a major modification to X-20). I think a space walk would be the most likely option and an airlock would have been next ink on the drawing board.
Yeeh – Bad day, looks like it would be a very quick exit though. Interesting that Dyna-Soar is lingering around. Better than Orion by along shot without the mounting issues of STS.
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> I don’t know about the transfer tunnel through the X-20 aft sections. The Secondary Power Bay, housing the APUs, propellants, and the thermal management system, or the Aft Equipment Bay, with RCS propellants and other systems, would make it a tight squeeze. Unless most of the systems of these bays are moved to the transition adapter section (i.e. a major modification to X-20).
Boeing had plans to provide for just such a reorganization. Keep in mind, the central bay packed full of instrumentation was packed full of instrumentation whose purpose was to analyze heating and structural responses during re-entry; once the Dyna Soar was characterized and proven successful, it would no longer be needed, clearing out a lage payload volume (adequate to seat four astronauts). And the power systems could certainly be relocated to the transition section, except for what would be required for the realtively brief period of re-entry and glide.
See here:
http://up-ship.com/blog/blog/?p=414
http://up-ship.com/blog/blog/?p=435
http://up-ship.com/blog/blog/?p=457
Super stuff!! Looking closely at the X-20 Model (XX)S-5.2 much of the large hydrogen tank and smaller ox tankage found in the Model 2050 has been divided into the transition section for the APU with APU exhaust ducted out of the side, instead of the top, of the earlier vehicle (observation based on the simularity in the system line-drawings). Great website!!
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