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Manned Orbiting Facility

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Modular Station 1975
Modular Station 1975
Manned Orbiting Facility
Credit: NASA via Marcus Lindroos

American manned space station. Study 1974. NASA carried out a number of space station studies while the Shuttle was being developed in the mid-1970s.

The first was McDonnell-Douglas' Manned Orbiting Facility (MOF) , a small 4-man space station that would have been configured differently for various missions, much like the Soviet Salyut stations.

Article by Marcus Lindroos

Country
USA
Launch Vehicles
Space Shuttle
Agency
NASA, Douglas