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    For Deep-Space Flights, NASA Wants Gas Stations for Space

    NASA has quietly put out feelers for what the space agency calls an “In-Space Cryogenic Propellant Storage and Transfer Demonstration.” In civilian speak, that's gas stations in space.

  • NASA_Orbital_Liquid_Hydrogen_Depot
    The space agency was dreaming big in 1971, also conceptualizing a proposed Orbital Liquid Hydrogen Depot.
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    NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
  • NASA_Orbital_Propellant_Depot
    An Earth-to-orbit fuel tanker approaches an orbital propellant depot, As envisioned by Marshall Space Flight Center Program Development planners in 1971.
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    NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
  • NASA_fuel_depot_images
    Boeing's full concept, from 2007 said that "if there were a fuel depot available on orbit, one capable of being replenished at any time, the Earth departure stage could, after refueling, carry significantly more payload to the Moon."
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    Boeing
  • NASA_Orbital_Liquid_Hydrogen_Depot
    The space agency was dreaming big in 1971, also conceptualizing a proposed Orbital Liquid Hydrogen Depot.
    read more
    NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
  • NASA_Orbital_Propellant_Depot
    An Earth-to-orbit fuel tanker approaches an orbital propellant depot, As envisioned by Marshall Space Flight Center Program Development planners in 1971.
    read more
    NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
  • NASA_fuel_depot_images
    Boeing's full concept, from 2007 said that "if there were a fuel depot available on orbit, one capable of being replenished at any time, the Earth departure stage could, after refueling, carry significantly more payload to the Moon."
    read more
    Boeing
  • Published
    6 Images

    For Deep-Space Flights, NASA Wants Gas Stations for Space

    NASA has quietly put out feelers for what the space agency calls an “In-Space Cryogenic Propellant Storage and Transfer Demonstration.” In civilian speak, that's gas stations in space.

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