Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station - Threadmarks

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Part 1: Introduction and the why and how of selecting an American space station design
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Dec 26, 2020
Part 2: Enterprise selected for sacrifice and rough plans for conversion laid out
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Dec 29, 2020
Image Annex: Real Shuttle/ET Station Conversion Ideas
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140

Dec 29, 2020
Part 3: As work begins, the challenges of the conversion are discovered
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Jan 1, 2021
Image Annex: Real Shuttle/ET Structure Images
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260

Jan 1, 2021
Image Annex: Space Shuttle Enterprise Cabin Images
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39

Jan 5, 2021
Part 4: While Enterprise work proceeds, Shuttle sees successes - but danger lurks
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Jan 5, 2021
Part 5: Discovery aftermath: Enterprise risk evaluated, and Shuttle returns to flight
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Jan 7, 2021
Part 6: STS-37R sees Enterprise launch, beginning her first and final voyage
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Jan 10, 2021
Part 7: STS-38R launch: a race to activate Enterprise before issues emerge
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Jan 13, 2021
Part 8: STS-38R arrives and works against the clock to activate the full solar array.
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Jan 16, 2021
Part 9: STS-38R and the “Last of the Skylab Guys” complete Enterprise commissioning
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Jan 19, 2021
Part 10: A presidential speech, and truly, a Vision of the future.
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520

Jan 22, 2021
Part 11: Previously existing considerations for international partnership in space
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Jan 25, 2021
Part 12: 90-Day Study offers a menu of options for all budgets and priorities
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Jan 28, 2021
Part 13: While Congress debates the future, Shuttle and Enterprise seek new normal. International partners lose patience.
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Jan 31, 2021
Part 14: Option D selected for Minerva. Shuttle-C and LSAM begin work. Enterprise to the sidelines.
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Feb 3, 2021
Part 15: In the shadow of Minerva, Enterprise topology and LOX conversion finalized.
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Feb 6, 2021
Part 16: Kepler testing and first operational Enterprise crew. LOX tank work begins.
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Feb 9, 2021
Part 17: New LOX habitat completed and compared to France’s work with Mir.
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Feb 12, 2021
Part 17 Image Annex: LOX Tank Interior
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Feb 12, 2021
Part 18: Shuttle-C design and Liquid Booster Program delays raise schedule risks
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Feb 15, 2021
Part 19: Alternative evolved expendable launch vehicles become national security space launchers
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Feb 18, 2021
Part 20: The first Shuttle-C and Minerva 1, Apollo 9 Redux. Habitank introduced.
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Feb 21, 2021
Part 21: Minerva 2 hardware delays in 1998 allow accelerated Enterprise expansion
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Feb 24, 2021
Part 22: Enterprise watches with the world as Minerva 2 launches for the moon.
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Feb 27, 2021
Part 23: Enterprise Expedition 10 watches Minerva 2 land on the moon
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Mar 2, 2021
Part 24: Enterprise expansion continues, contrasted with Mir decay and Euro-Russian Mir II diplomacy.
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Mar 5, 2021
Part 25: Shuttle enhancements offer more performance even as Enterprise and the Space Shuttle struggle with transition to the post-assembly era.
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Mar 8, 2021
Part 26: Minerva 3 builds a cabin on the moon with Habitank, Conestogas, and mules.
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Mar 11, 2021
Part 27: Enterprise acquires an understudy, Galileo. Mir-II acquires a new lab, Curie. Hubble comes to stay.
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Mar 14, 2021
Part 28: Looking ahead to the next generation for Shuttle-II and Diana
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Mar 17, 2021
Part 29: A hanger needed, a tank available. Enterprise acquires a shuttlebay.
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Mar 20, 2021
Part 30: Orbital maintenance and shifting priorities for an aging station
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Mar 23, 2021
Part 31: Orbital refit in progress builds a new hangar bay.
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Mar 26, 2021
Part 32: The headaches and hassles of developing the next generation of reusable systems - Diana & Shuttle II
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Mar 29, 2021
Part 33: First and Last. Enterprise outlasts its sisters. Shuttle-II flight tests and epilogue.
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Apr 1, 2021
author's note: e of pi
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Apr 1, 2021
author's note: TimothyC
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Apr 1, 2021
Author's Notes: Vehicle Names
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May 1, 2021
Author's Notes: World Space Programs
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Jul 13, 2021
Author's Notes: Disposition of Shuttle Program Hardware
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710

Oct 2, 2021
2022 Turtledove Win Thanks
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94

Mar 6, 2022

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