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A preliminary version of what became known as Skylab, designed as a wet workshop with the engine attached
A wet workshop is a space station made from a spent liquid-propellant rocket stage. Such a rocket stage contains two large, airtight propellant tanks; it was realized that the larger tank could be retrofitted into the living quarters of a space station, while the smaller one could be used for the storage of waste. A large rocket stage would reach a low Earth orbit and undergo later modification. This would make for a cost-effective reuse of hardware that would otherwise have no further purpose, but the in-orbit modification of the rocket stage could prove difficult and expensive. As of April 2024[update], no wet-workshop space station has been built or flown.
A wet workshop is contrasted with a "dry workshop", where the empty upper stage is internally outfitted on the ground before launch with a human habitat and other equipment. It is not filled with propellant; instead the stage is launched into orbit by a sufficiently powerful rocket.[1]
The Apollo Applications Program of the 1960s studied using the Saturn V second stage S-II, and later planned to use the Saturn IB second stage S-IVB as a wet workshop, but cancellation of some Apollo program lunar landing missions made a two-stage Saturn V available to launch the station known as Skylab as an S-IVB dry workshop.
A wetworkshop is a space station made from a spent liquid-propellant rocket stage. Such a rocket stage contains two large, airtight propellant tanks;...
extra power available, the wetworkshop was no longer needed; the S-IC and S-II lower stages could launch a "dry workshop", with its interior already...
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contractor Brand Griffin, Skylab II would have been constructed as a "wetworkshop" using a spent upper-stage hydrogen fuel tank from the Space Launch System...
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turn spent rocket tanks into a habitable living area, often known as a wetworkshop. Planning and design for Lunar and Martian outposts is underway. Human...
IB would be referred to as the "Saturn I Workshop". (Colloquially it had been referred to as the "wetworkshop".) Terminology "Uprated Saturn I" would...
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