
Model: Douglas space station cabin
- Made:
- 1960 in unknown place















DOUGLAS SPACE STATION CABIN MODEL, ca. early/mid 1960s
In the early 1960s the United States considered a number of space station concepts. Some proposals were NASA-led while others were worked on by the United States Air Force (USAF). This scale model depicts the layout of a simulator cabin for USAF astronauts training for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) space station. MOL was evolved from NASA’s Gemini programme – a set of orbital capsule missions where two-astronaut crews would test and practice the manoeuvres needed for project Apollo. The MOL would be constructed from a modified Titan rocket with Gemini capsules ferrying the crew to and from it in orbit. MOL was a surveillance programme to gather high resolution photographs of the Soviet Union. Improvements in unmanned surveillance satellite capability rendered MOL unnecessary and the programme was cancelled in 1969 without a single launch. The simulator cabin model provides displayable representation of a subject – the training of astronauts - that is still under-represented in the Space Technology collection
Details
- Category:
- Space Technology
- Object Number:
- 2021-23
- Measurements:
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overall: 38 in 16 in,
- type:
- model - representation