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Outpost

Atlas manned lab

Atlas manned lab

American manned space station. Study 1958. In 1958, the year after Sputnik 1, Krafft Ehricke, then with General Dynamics' Convair Division, designed a four-man space station known as Outpost.

Status: Study 1958.

Ehricke proposed that the Atlas ICBM being developed by Convair could be adapted as the station's basic structure. The Atlas, 3 m in diameter and 22.8 m long, was America's largest rocket at the time.



Family: Space station, Space station orbit, USA - Space Stations. Country: USA. Launch Vehicles: Atlas, Atlas D. Agency: Convair.

1958 - During the year - . LV Family: Atlas. Launch Vehicle: Atlas D.

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