The strategy that has been adopted for the NASA permanent manned space station development program is to provide a source of different modular components. Virtually any tactical requirements can then be accommodated through the specification of the appropriate inventory of orbitally assembled modular components. Some of the space station's subsystems are common to several elements, and must therefore be generally compatible, offering consistent interfaces with, for example, the Space Shuttle Orbiter. Tethered systems, including small platforms for controlled micro-g experiments, will be incorporated, and the occasional presence of two docked Space Shuttle Orbiters will be allowed for.
The space station program plan
Aerospace America ; 22
1984-09-01
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Space station program phase B definition study plan
NTRS | 1969
|Space Station Program, Phase B, Definition Study Plan
NTIS | 1969
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