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From: dlbres10@pc.usl.edu (Fraering Philip)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: LNLL Inflatable Stations
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Date: 5 Nov 90 17:25:53 GMT
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Ugh! here you go, I don't know the best way to prune this:

In article <1990Nov3.194451.11017@engin.umich.edu> sheppard@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ken  Sheppardson) writes:

>      aws@ITI.ORG ("Allen W. Sherzer") writes:
>   >In article <44053@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> you write:
>   >
>   >>On Freedom, everything is simply installed inside the modules before launch.
>   >
>   >At the Midwest Space Development Conference two weeks ago an engineer
>   >on Freedom implied that the modules had to be assembled in orbit. They
>   >are too big/heavy to fit on a single Shuttle flight. However, I didn't
>   >get a chance to ask him if my understanding was correct.

>      I believe a the current US Hab/Lab modules are too heavy to launch
>      fully outfitted using the current shuttle.

From what I gather, the stripped modules run into problems with
the shuttle senter-of-gravity limits.

Phil