No Shortage of Dreams | A KSP Skylab Alternative History

[Rutabaga22]

That really sucks. I hope they aren't too hard to fix.

[TruthfulGnome]

Skylab 7 | SLM-6 | STS-5 - February 8 - 13, 1982

Crew:
Ken Mattingly
William Lenoir
Story Musgrave
Vance Brand

Shuttle:
Columbia

After completing the test flight phase of STS, Columbia is ready to conduct her first operational mission consisting of launch/rendezvous to Skylab for remote control of TRS-1 to grab the Multiple Docking Interface Module (MDIM) and attach it to Skylab granting the ability for Columbia to dock with the Workshop. This will be Columbia's second visit to the station and the first crew inside of Skylab since 1974. The MDIM built by McDonnell Douglas includes 5 APAS-75s that were originally used on ASTP (Apollo Soyuz Test Project) and an Apollo Probe for attachment to Skylab, the "front" APAS-75 will be used for Orbiter dockings and future modules if needed, the side APAS-75s will be used for other spacecraft and the planned Spacelab modules by the European Space Agency. After the crew docks to Skylab they will have a rest period before entering the Workshop, once prepared the crew will start to install new kits and supplies into the Workshop they will also remove older kits that are no longer needed, Skylab 9 will install the last remaining kits and new showers for women. This will also be the final mission for TRS-1 which has been a historical success with the possibility of more to come as plans raise at NASA for more orders of the TRS spacecrafts due to some Astronauts deeming Canadarm too risky for the future modules.


Columbia waiting for her mission on LC-39A








Go for launch 





Crew arm retract








GOX Arm retract T-2 Mins


T- 10 Seconds


5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1..


Liftoff of Skylab 7!


Roll completed





Columbia on track





SRB Separation





On track with Skylab Trajectory














MECO


Clean separation from the External Tank


Circularization burn








Payload doors opening revealing the MDIM








Columbia, Houston, You are looking clean for rendezvous








Rendezvous burn











Rendezvous with Skylab


TRS-1 Docked to Skylab awaiting remote connection


Fly around


Columbia preparing to fly TRS-1 for the second time
 










TRS-1 Undocking





TRS being maneuvered to dock with the adapter








Docked


Release of TRS-1 and the adapter


Orbiter view of TRS-1 maneuvering to the MDIM








Docked with the MDIM


TRS-1 moving towards Skylab











Docking confirmed


Hard docking


TRS-1 pulling away from Skylab


TRS-1 deorbit after 3 highly successful missions


Columbia you are go for docking with Skylab








Capture





Vance Brand: "We have docked with Skylab! WOOOHOOO!!"














After completing rest period and checkouts the crew enters Skylab for refurbishment











After a successful refurbishment Columbia preps for undocking 

















Final views of Skylab from Skylab 7





Payload doors closing before deorbit


Deorbit





Columbia now in its AOA for Reentry.


























Approach to Runway 22








Wheel stop.

Edited November 20, 2022 by TruthfulGnome

[DG1]

LETS GOOO 

[Lil_Bread402]

looks amazing

[Rutabaga22]

Another great installment! Must be difficult doing all that docking!

[TruthfulGnome]

9 hours ago, Rutabaga22 said:

Another great installment! Must be difficult doing all that docking!

It took a few hours.. not easy with all the rotations and controls 

[Kuiper_Belt]

My goodness is this thread gorgeous! You've done Skylab the justice it deserves! Absolutely fantastic work! Can't wait to see the next installment!

[AlmondTheAstronaut]

Very Epic

[Rutabaga22]

Will the space coke can end up flying on a shuttle?

[Sanchez_1]

This is some good stuff here, will look forward to the next post!

[Rutabaga22]

Is this KSRSSS or RSS?

[TruthfulGnome]

49 minutes ago, Rutabaga22 said:

Is this KSRSSS or RSS?

KSRSS

[Antiperson]

The image of a lit up Columbia docked to Skylab during the night, so ridiculously good aaaa

[AlmondTheAstronaut]

it would be so goofy ahhh if Skylab was the core module of Space Station Freedom >:]

[Rutabaga22]

5 hours ago, AlmondTheAstronaut said:

it would be so goofy ahhh if Skylab was the core module of Space Station Freedom >:]

It might just be skylab. Why have plans for freedom when skylab is doing fine?

[AlmondTheAstronaut]

12 hours ago, Rutabaga22 said:

It might just be skylab. Why have plans for freedom when skylab is doing fine?

I was joking lmao

[CalvonVulcan]

@TruthfulGnomeHey lovley thread, Which mods do you use i only want the Visuals mods like tufx and that stuff and which scale of ksrss do you use? Stock or 2.5, just the visuals bc i wanna try that, so Plz reply

Edited September 13, 2022 by CalvonVulcan
Do you use reborn or?

[Lil_Bread402]

I like Skylab

[TruthfulGnome]

11 hours ago, CalvonVulcan said:

@TruthfulGnomeHey lovley thread, Which mods do you use i only want the Visuals mods like tufx and that stuff and which scale of ksrss do you use? Stock or 2.5, just the visuals bc i wanna try that, so Plz reply

I don't share my visuals :p

[Rutabaga22]

16 hours ago, TruthfulGnome said:

I don't share my visuals :p

I bet even if you did, the game would look different from yours. Every time I remod my game, the visual mods always make it look a little different. 

[Adiri]

On 9/13/2022 at 7:37 PM, TruthfulGnome said:

I don't share my visuals :p

Why not? I'm sure it would help some people

[AlmondTheAstronaut]

On 9/13/2022 at 8:49 PM, AstroMods said:

I like Skylab

I like Skylab

[Rutabaga22]

Would you mind providing craft files? I really want to be able to play with these recreations in my own save.

[TruthfulGnome]

No this thread isn't dead  just planning out a lot of things for later down the line, will try and get some posts up

[Rutabaga22]

Was this series inspired by this at all or do they just share the same name?