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Docking Port and Living Quarters

Learning Point

  • Construct the first docking location on the space station, leaving space for spacecraft to be attached. Design and position a living quarters from that docking point. Consider the overall position it will have in the space station.

Project

  • Find a place to build your space station in the sky
  • Design the docking port that rockets or shuttles connect to
  • Build where the astronauts live
  • Overview
  • Space Station Examples

More images to be added later.

ISS
NASA Johnson Space Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mir
By Orionist – Based on a diagram taken from page 53 of NASA’s Mir Mission Chronicle and the original NASA diagram at File:Mir module.jpg., CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
Tiangong
By Shujianyang – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
Skylab
By NASA (Crew of Skylab 4) – grin.hq.nasa.gov at the Wayback Machine (archived 2001-02-22), Public Domain, Link

Fun Facts

  • Find a place to build your space station in the sky
  • Design the docking port that rockets or shuttles connect to
  • Build where the astronauts live

Past Lessons

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