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From: eder@ssc-vax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Space stations.
Message-ID: <793@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 14:48:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 31 14:48:58 1984
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
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31 January 1984

     The reason most space station modules are designed as cylinders
is they are designed to ride up in the Space Shuttle.  The Shuttle's
cargo bay is a cylinder 15 feet in diameter and 60 feet long.
     You will find, as a consequence, the diameters of station modules
designed by different companies will be almost identical.

                                                   Dani Eder
                                                   Boeing Aerospace Company
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