[FPSPACE] Space Station Freedom

[agzak at optonline.net]

David:

If you check January-October 1993 issues of Aviation Week, you 
can find a number of photos of the Space Station Freedom 
hardware under construction, for example, scenes of US lab 
module bulkheads being welded. Obivously, these peices were 
then used virtaully unchanged for the US segment of the ISS, 
after Russians officially joined the project in October 1993.

Anatoly Zak
RussianSpaceWeb.com



----- Original Message -----
From: DSFPortree at aol.com
Date: Friday, July 22, 2005 9:27 am
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Space Station Freedom

> Hi, Robert:
> 
> > One thing to keep in mind is that not all the money on SSF 
was 
> lost.  A lot
> > of development was rolled into ISS.  Unfortunately, I don't 
know 
> how to
> > calculate the percentage.  More than "some" and less than "a 
lot" ;)
> 
> An individual involved in SSF took exception to my "$10.234 
billion 
> to build 
> no hardware" statement. Madison and McCurdy actually point 
out that 
> we did 
> build *some* hardware for SSF. The place the amount at 25,000 
lbs 
> by 1/95, or 3% 
> of the 925,000 pounds planned. 
> 
> The individual in question said that the ISS PV arrays are SSF 
> arrays built 
> before the handover from SSF to ISS. Was that the only thing?
> 
> I recall now that Option-C, the single launch core station 
> alternative 
> considered in the 1993 redesign, would have included SSF PV 
arrays, 
> but little other 
> SSF hardware. Perhaps that's because there was little SSF 
hardware 
> available 
> to include.
> 
> Was SSF ramping up to actually build hardware at a reasonable 
rate 
> when it 
> became ISS? Would we have seen a sudden powerful growth in 
the 
> amount of 
> hardware produced, all else being equal? Or would the program 
had 
> bumped along 
> indefinitely, producing 3% of the hardware planned for the 
station 
> per decade?
> 
> I'm curious because I'm trying to revisit my picture of the 
> situation in 
> 1993, when SSF became ISS.
> 
> David
> 
> David S. F. Portree
> Science writer & historian
> dsfportree at aol.com
> Flagstaff Arizona USA
> 
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