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ARTIST CONCEPT: of what an advanced large space station might be like. The station would have a 240 foot radius to the rotational G living quarter at the upper left and as much as 375 foot radius to the spinning balance and power section at the other end of the rotating segment. Such a station would be launched in three parts by three Saturn V rockets and assembled in space. It would have a gross weight of about one million pounds and could carry as much as 100,000 pounds of experiment weight. Volume in the living quarters would be about 50,000 cubic feet while the zero g laboratory in the center could contain as much as 45,000 cubic feet. The large radius would permit achievement of nearly one G at 3.5 revolutions per minute. It would require 7,000 pounds of fuel to spin up to this rate and in that condition it would remain essentially fixed in inertial space. Floating nearby, bottom left, is a concept of a 120 inch telescope. Use could be made of the S-II stage of the Saturn V as part of the basic structure and the S-II empty propellant tanks, which would be entered, pressurized and interior accommodations constructed. The center section of the concept has a hangar with a small satellite being taken in for maintenance.

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