Skylab II
Artist's conception of the Orion spacecraft docking with a module of the proposed Skylab II. | |
| Station statistics | |
|---|---|
| Crew | 4 |
| Launch | after 2021 |
| Carrier rocket | Space Launch System |
| Mission status | Proposed |
| Mass | 37,300 kilograms (82,200 lb) |
| Length | 11.15 meters (36.6 ft) |
| Diameter | 8.5 meters (28 ft) |
| Pressurised volume | 495 cubic meters (17,500 cu ft) |
| Orbital inclination | 5.145° to the ecliptic |
| Orbital period | |
| Configuration | |
Skylab II Habitat made from the SLS upper-stage hydrogen tank. | |
Skylab II was a space station concept proposed in 2013 by the Advanced Concepts Office of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, to be located at the Earth-Moon L2 Lagrangian point. Proposed by NASA contractor Brand Griffin, Skylab II would have been constructed as a "wet workshop" using a spent upper-stage hydrogen fuel tank from the Space Launch System (SLS), much as the Skylab was originally planned to be built "wet" from the spent bipropellant tanks of the Saturn S-IVB upper stage. If constructed, Skylab II would have been the first crewed outpost located beyond the orbit of the Moon.