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- From: davem@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Michelson)
- Subject: Re: Saturn lift capabilities
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.010256.4062@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:02:56 GMT
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- A lot of people obviously feel that Skylab was worth saving. Was it?
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- Although items such as food and clothing could have been replenished
- rather easily, I'm under the impression that oxygen and nitrogen could
- not. Skylab was essentially designed as a "throw-away" workshop not
- a real space station. I assume that there was a comfortable safety margin
- built into Skylab, but how much life support capability was left after
- the last crew departed?
-
- I suppose that one could have docked an "environmental module" with
- replenishable O2 and N2 tanks at the docking port and, with suitable
- ventilation, kept the workshop habitable. Were plans for such a
- "life extension" module ever considered?
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- Dave Michelson
- davem@ee.ubc.ca
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