Sep 082013
A piece of artwork (from an ebay auction some time back) depicting a Douglas concept for a space station attached to a S-IVb stage. Unclear if the launcher was a Saturn Ib or a Saturn V; if it was launched complete, it would have had to have been a Saturn V. Logistics transport is provided by Gemini capsules. This was likely part of a Douglas MORL study.
Scott, due to some need to back up statements on some message boards I’ve found more information on this picture. This is the Manned Orbital Research Laboratory space station concept (as you’ve noted) dating from the early to mid 60s. This is the smaller, Saturn-1 launched version which would have used Gemini for operations until Apollo came on-line. Interesting to note is how much space is devoted to a “dock-and-airlock” system required because Gemini had no way for astronauts to move from Gemini to the space station in a shirt sleeve environment.
Email me if you want some linked documents I’ve found around the net.
Randy
Saturn III,more like.
Caption:
Astronauts Overmyer and Aldrin conduct Starlab 3 EVA 1,November 14 1974. Mission Commander Fred Haise supports the EVA from inside Starlab.