Re: Moonlab - could the SIVB be used to put a Skylab on the Moon?

In article <Xns99282446D96Fdamon161attbicom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Damon Hill <damon1SIX1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Skylab was launched "dry"; no propellants, no J-2. A "wet"
S-IVB on a Saturn 1-B was proposed, but soaking station
equipment in LH2 was a Problem.

Most equipment would have had to be stored outside the tanks, e.g. in the
Multiple Docking Adapter, and then moved in by the crew. This would have
been a time-consuming nuisance but not a total disaster.

Basic structure and the like could be pre-positioned in the tank, so long
as it didn't get in the way of fuel flow too much -- this was the origin
of Skylab's grid floors. (Skylab was too impoverished to do much redesign
to exploit the switch to the "dry workshop" concept, so various aspects of
the "wet workshop" are still visible in the design.)

Von Braun *did* think that the "wet workshop" could have been made to
work, given a determined effort, but the incentive went away when the
program shrank to a single flight article and it became clear that a
Saturn V could be made available for the launch.
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