Wernher Von Braun, and using empty rocket stages as the revolver-shape space station.

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

There were stories, that legendary Wernher Von Braun planned cheap space-stations by using the empty rocket stages. Empty rocket stages would send to the orbiter with other launches. And that would make the station very cheap. The needed gasses, what are actually the pressurized air, would be packed in the bottles. If the used gas would be pure oxygen there would be the risk of fire in that space station would cause the explosion. The station would be built in the Lagrangian point near Moon, where it would need no fuel to stay in right position.

But von Braun didn't mention that this kind of space station would have more capacity if the stages have assembled in the form of the revolver cylinder, and the stages or modules would be set in like patrons of the revolver. This shape would allow getting the space station as the rounding situation, what would make the synthetic gravitation possible. The picture above the text is an artist impression of same style space station but in Von Braun's original idea the cylinders were installed lengthwise and the number of the cylinders or empty rocket stages was three or four.

Lagrangian points
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If the modules would put in the body like the patrons have put in the revolver, the small size "artificial world" could be possible, and if the space station can grow the food inside its core, the system could work independently. And because of the independently produced food, the service flights must not make so often. The use of empty rocket stages would be helpful to keep that project in secrecy, and in the real life, those empty stages would be pulled to the right point by using small spacecraft like X37B.

This kind of modular space station could be very effective for any kind of missions on the space. The artificial gravity and the electromagnetic shields would make the astronauts allow stay very long time in that station, and they will not get any weaknesses or cancers in the staying at the station. That would help cover the existence of that space station.

Sources

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Mechanics/lagpt.html

Picture 1

http://www.metallhead.com/STARSHIP/SpaceIslandGroup.jpg

Picture 2

http://www.ottisoft.com/Activities/Lagrangian%20points.gif

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