S-IVB Advanced Station
S-IVB Advanced Stati
Class: Manned. Type: Space Station. Destination: Space Station Orbit. Nation: USA. Manufacturer: Douglas.

Follow-on to Skylab proposed by Douglas. The station would still use the S-IVB stage as the basis, but would be much more extensively outfitted for larger crews.

Associated Launch Vehicle: Saturn V.

Bibliography and Further Reading
  • Gatland, Kenneth and Bono, Philip, Frontiers of Space, Macmillan, New York, 1969. ISBN: 071373504X. Largely taken over to a discussion of Bono's plug-nozzle, single stage to orbit designs and their advantages over winged shuttle designs. More at amazon.com...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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