Our space station is a freight and passenger destination and transfer station.
It will be assembled in Earth orbit at 901 km AGL with an inclination of 60 degrees. At this altitude, orbital re–boost will not be necessary, since it will take several hundred years for the orbit to decay.
VentureStars will bring up the parts and astronauts will put them together. The station parts will all be in the shape of cylinders to accommodate the cargo space in the shuttle, just like the ISS.
We will use the USIS Pressurized Docking Ring to attach modules and allow people to move between them.
Scrubbing CO2 from station atmosphere will be accomplished by using the zeolite vacuum technique, where Carbon Dioxide molecules attach themselves to the zeolite material and then are cleansed by exposing the soiled material to the vacuum of space. Lather rise repeat.
Spaceflight Crews will operate around the clock, with roughly half of the crew on the Day Shift and the rest on the Night Crew. Each shift will have a duration of 12 hours.
The internal features of the cylinders will be determined by a committee of experts that will include psychologists and interior designers.
We will also use the same Utility Vehicles that was used for the Lunar Diamonds effort (Image 1).
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| Image 1: Phase I Outpost configuration repurposed for assembling the Earth Orbit Station |
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