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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: MOL (was Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...))
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:28:38 GMT
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- In article <1h8p38INNk40@mirror.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
- >...he said that something called "Apollo
- >Telescope Mount" was the SOn of MOL...
- >... I am wondering if he was referring
- >to the astronomical section of SKYLAB?
-
- The ATM was the Skylab solar-telescope assembly.
-
- >... he implied that it had been
- >transmorged, but that it still had a lot of MOL-like systems and fixtures.
-
- I find this extremely difficult to believe. For one thing, there was *no
- resemblance* between the two projects. MOL was a pressurized manned lab,
- sort of a mini-Skylab. The ATM was an unpressurized unmanned telescope
- platform which happened to be attached to Skylab. (It had originally
- been planned to be attached to a modified Lunar Module ascent stage,
- which would have been its crew station, and there was some thought to
- building it into a modified LM descent stage... but both of those ideas
- were discarded in the end. The ATM's crew station was in the Skylab
- docking-adapter section.)
-
- Skylab did use some bits and pieces developed for MOL, e.g. the toilet,
- but as far as I know there was no major subassembly transferred intact
- from the one project to the other. There is no mention of such a
- relationship in the Skylab News Reference or in Living And Working In
- Space (NASA SP-4208, the NASA History book on Skylab).
- --
- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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