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[Pipcard]

The American, European, and Japanese ISS modules also contain experiment racks, so the cross-section in which people can move around is only a 2 x 2 meter square. The Russian modules are even more cramped than that.

 

[Andy44]

...Why the ISS is so claustrophobic, but the Skylab was so spacious and futuristic?

ISS:

Skylab:

Discovery One:

:shrug:

Personally, this comes to my head to compare the stations:
Skylab:

ISS:

:shrug:

Because Saturn V.

 

[orbitingpluto]

This place is claustrophobic?

Whatever the heck "futuristic" means to you, it may or may not have, but small it is not.

 

[Linguofreak]

Whatever the heck "futuristic" means to you, it may or may not have, but small it is not.

Wellll... compared to the inside of an S-IVb, I'd say it qualifies as "small".

OTOH, over time, given enough time, Skylab may have found itself partitioned into rooms and filed with equipment to the point that an interior photo might have liked much like what we now see on the ISS.

 

[orb]

Why the ISS is so claustrophobic, but the Skylab was so spacious and futuristic?

Well by looking at the images, they can also feel like this:

Skylab:

ISS:

 

[Urwumpe]

...Why the ISS is so claustrophobic, but the Skylab was so spacious and futuristic?

Because the ISS is inhabited without break for over 15 years now? While Skylab was only occupied for 171 days in total.

The ISS looked really like fresh from the furniture stores brochure when it was launched...

I would say, the ISS is still way more futuristic - because it is a real space station and not some attempt at it.

 

[Artlav]

Don't forget, that's how big some ISS modules are, with all the equipment removed:

I wonder how spacious would the innards of a shuttle ET feel like - they wanted to turn them into space stations too, back when NASA was cool.

 

[Urwumpe]

I wonder how spacious would the innards of a shuttle ET feel like - they wanted to turn them into space stations too, back when NASA was cool.

Well, for visualization:

 

[Andy44]

But the "Ring of ETs" station idea had them spun so you would have gravity and maybe install a couple of decks. Back when NASA was cool indeed.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

USAF brass have decided to keep the Warthog in service for the foreseeable future.

Sorry, we need some celebratory gunfire:

 

[Matias Saibene]

All explained:

Back when NASA was cool indeed.

Because Saturn V.

Indeed

Because the ISS is inhabited without break for over 15 years now? While Skylab was only occupied for 171 days in total.

The ISS looked really like fresh from the furniture stores brochure when it was launched...

I would say, the ISS is still way more futuristic - because it is a real space station and not some attempt at it.

Nice, over the years, the interior materials are worn or damaged?

 

[Urwumpe]

Nice, over the years, the interior materials are worn or damaged?

Yes, and like very often, also bought up and never bought back down. The interior is now full with various experiments or other things to store. Or small modifications possible because technology progressed while the Space Station was in space.

 

[Evil_Onyx]

Striking views of our Solar System - BBC

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Aren't they still sorting through data collected from the ATM? Skylab was still a pretty good use of hardware, and if the budget held, and Columbia not way behind schedule, things could have been vastly different.

 

[Pipcard]

I had real bad taste several years ago.

My favorite font was Comic Sans, because I thought it looked cute. I once had replaced all the fonts on my computer with it. I also even enjoyed the second (Michael Bay) Transformers movie, because I only payed attention to the action scenes and could sit through all the trashy plot and dialogue. And this car (specifically the Pivo 2), I thought it had a cool and unique design, not understanding why everyone else was calling it ugly.

 

[mojoey]

Let me guess, now you like the AE86 Sprinter Trueno.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Well, for visualization:

Holy crap.

Thats big enough that Id bet there would be occasional problems with crew getting stuck in the middle in freefall, needing something (or somebody) thrown at them to get out of the middle :lol:

Why exactly did this idea of using ETs never catch on? (I know internal volume isnt everything with station modules, but it still seems like a pretty decent idea)

 

[Andy44]

Why exactly did this idea of using ETs never catch on? (I know internal volume isnt everything with station modules, but it still seems like a pretty decent idea)

Same reasons other good ideas don't catch on with NASA: lack of budget.

To be fair, using an ET as a space station is not super easy or cheap, though. Getting it into orbit isn't hard; you just burn the main engines a few extra seconds. But then the real work starts.

 

[Urwumpe]

Let me guess, now you like the AE86 Sprinter Trueno.

Damn, that looks like the car a friend had as first car after making a license. You need to learn a lot for getting a drivers license in Germany, specially today... but still he had never learned to use the choke until I sat in there and complained about the really bad engine sound that his car made. Poor little car.

 

[mojoey]

It's pretty much the Japanese Domestic Market's early Toyota Corolla. Except it was part of an anime, and now every weeaboo with even a passing interest in refined petroleum wants one.