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Re: Air lock and ship docking discussion
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lugnet.space
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Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:41:32 GMT
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"John J. Ladasky Jr." <ladasky@my-deja.com> writes:
> Maybe the hatch almost always opens into the docking port
> of another vehicle, or into a breathable atmosphere. In that
> case, you can get away with a single door on the ship, which
> greatly simplifies the interior design.
Or you can create a little extension (sort of like a docking port with no
ship attached) which adds an extra door to the port, thereby creating an
airlock.
> I haven't said anything about this for a while. However, shortly
> after the original discussion ended, I concluded that we Space Datsville
> hopefuls will probably still end up with at least two or three different
> types of airlock design. Some of them may be able to join to each
other, >others not.
Then comes the challenge of creating adapters from one type to another.
Hey they could do it for the astro/cosmonaut meeting, why not for Space
Datsville?
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com
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| (...) If I haven't already, I meant to thank you for this design! I've built it and it works nicely. (...) Tim Courtney suggested this idea to me awhile back, and I like it. I hadn't posted it before because I thought things were too heated back (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Indeed. I'm not sure that the idea was Pat's, however. Tom McDonald proposed his airlock as a standard design back in this message: (URL) a very nice design (the use of pegs and beams is well thought-out, and I'm likely to steal that part of (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.space)
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