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Docking Bay 18 Space Station S-1 The space station that Walt Disney displayed in his landmark television program on space exploration in 1955, was essentially the same design that had been developed earlier by von Braun. However there were changes and improvements.
This particular space station was designed to be brought up into orbit in completed sections, assembled there, and then provide living quarters for personnel for the rest of the time the station was being assembled.
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One interesting change was the use of an atomic reactor to produce energy to drive all this space stations electrical power needs instead of the earlier sun powered mercury boilers on von Braun's first design. No attempt would be made to use solar energy as he had done before. It showed his confidence in the ability of science to control atomic energy.
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Also it was a 3-spoke design with wire styled heat radiators rather than two to support the hub and rim. Although it appeared to be a simple change, this would have made a major difference in how to balance the station. How this would have been worked out was never explained.
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Because it would need to support fewer people than the earlier design, it was smaller, being only 154 feet rather than 250 feet in diameter. Other than that it used much of the same technology that von Braun had used previously in the Colliers articles.
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Incidentally, even though this circular space station spun to create a simulation of gravity, it was designed to only produce one third of Earth’s gravity while in orbit.
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A Precision Design Drawing of this SpaceStation -----------------------------------------
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Complete background information is available in the Spaceship Handbook
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This Space station is also featured in “Ad Astra per Aspera”
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