Wet Workshops Are Back: NanoRacks, ESA, and Starship’s Lunar Future

In this video, l cover the topic of converting fuel tanks into space stations. This concept was proposed by NASA’s first Administrator, Wernher Von Braun, he called it “Wet Workshops”.

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00:00 Intro
01:04 Skylab Wet Workshop History
02:52 Skylab
03:36 Skylab Wet Workshop Legacy
05:36 ESA's Wet Workshop Proposal for Ariane 5 Upper Stage
06:15 SpaceX’s Starship First Stage (Booster)
06:48 SpaceX’s Starship Vehicle (Second Stage)
08:32 Lunar Starship and the Wet Workshop Idea
12:06 Final Thoughts
12:49 Outro

Sources:

After 50 years, a private company will revive NASA’s “wet workshop”: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/after-50-years-a-private-company-will-revive-nasas-wet-workshop/

Astronaut Alan Bean enjoying weightlessness in the open space of the orbital workshop on the Skylab space station in 1973: https://x.com/wonderofscience/status/1981006628888420763

Space Studies Institute(SSI): Report on Space Shuttle External Tank Applications [PDF]: https://ssi.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ssi_externaltanks_gimarc.pdf

NASA astronauts performing gymnastics on board of the Skylab: https://youtu.be/d1sr6aVzW9M

Building Skylab (1972): https://youtu.be/iVPoQfcQFqE

The Skylab Legacy -- Long Duration Space Flight: https://youtu.be/JZNKVnDvQY4