STS External Tank Station

home
topic index

Ext Tank Station 88
Credit - NASA via Marcus Lindroos

Class: Manned. Type: Space Station. Destination: Space Station Orbit. Nation: USA. Manufacturer: Huntsville.

NASA studied several concepts in the 1980's using the 'wet workshop' approach to the capacious External Tank carried into orbit with every shuttle flight. Despite the incredible logic of this, NASA management never pursued it seriously - seeing it as an irresistible low-cost alternative to their own large modular space station plans.

Associated Launch Vehicle: Shuttle.

Bibliography:

NASA Report, Utilization of the external tanks of the space transportation system, Web Address when accessed: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19940004970_1994004970.pdf.

STS External Tanks S
Space station based on Shuttle external tank fitted out with surplus Skylab hardware from the National Air and Space Museum, concept of 1977....

Ext Tank Station
Credit- NASA via Marcus Lindroos

Contact us with any corrections, additions, or comments.

Conditions for use of drawings, pictures, or other materials from this site..
To contact astronauts or cosmonauts.

© Mark Wade, 1997 - 2008 except where otherwise noted.