2001 a Space Odyssey
Page three (of 4)
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Here are some pictures that I have 'made' up using 2001 movie screen 'grabs', my models, and 'paint shop pro'.
The year is 2003, and the construction of Space station 5 has been
completed. An Orion space-plane nears the orbiting 'space station 5', while a
Aries1B leaves for the Moon In the other picture, two Orion's arrive and depart
at each 'station port'.
The Station is a altered 'frame grab' from the
movie, as is the Aries & Orion. The Earth is real...a photo taken from a (real)
space shuttle.
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Two Orion space planes near the completed station
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My latest 'made up' picture, is made by using a space station 'grab' from the movie, and two models. The docking mechanisms for the Orion and Aries are taken from the pre-production artwork that (also) gave me the Idea to show the 'Docking mechanisms' seen in the painting in use. (painting seen below)
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The Orion model is constructed by me, from a resin kit supplied by William Lenches of wilco models wilcomodels@hotmail.com
Size of the Space Station 5... and the Aries 1B
Due to work that I have Done to establish the Length of the Orion (see page 4) ,and by directly comparing the length for 'My' Orion to the Station as seen Here , the Station Works out at Having a Diameter of 2,858 feet, (and so) having a 'slot ' 98ft. high... Way way too big ! This of course assumes that the Orion and Station V studio models were 'at the same scale' (The Orion and station were 'added' together photographically and not physically) and not different scales. (but filmed together at a size governed more for 'artistic' reasons,and on the principal of 'no-one will notice')
Looking at the slot (where) the Stations occupants can be seen through 'large windows' in the docking bay, my feeling is that there is no way that the slot is 98 ft high... (Even if the Orion seen docking in the picture, is scaled at being (the 'accepted in fandom' ) 165 ft long, by doing the math the station still works out to having a slot with a height of 76ft.....and so a station diameter of 2,214 ft)............still too big !
Fortunately there is a solution...By assuming that the Orion (as seen in the movie with the station) is indeed the 'wrong' scale for the station.
So what IS the 'correct' scale ? Well..... the Orion must enter the station to dock. So the docking slot has to be deeper than the length of Orion. The depth of the slot then determines the size of the Station, 244 feet is about the minimum depth it would need to be do this. See Here * given that Orion is 213ft.long (+ aerials)
With the 244ft. deep slot as the 'Driver' for the size of the Station docking port ,the Station becomes 1,836 feet in Diameter...With a Hub 309 ft in dia. and a 'slot' 230ft wide (greatest width) by 244ft deep...and 63ft high. This gives Aries a 'clearance' of 11.5 feet each side and so my 'made-up' pictures (above) would be about right !
MORE PICTURES TO FOLLOW SOON !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Conclusions
The above would give the Station, Orion, and Aries a 'logically' consistent scale with each other.
Orion is 213 ft long.........Aries 1B is 40 ft Dia.........and the Station 1836ft in Dia.*
By my counting pixels in frame grabs and other sources, I have determined that the Station is in proportion to having a diameter 5.93 Times the dia. of the Hub, and the hub is 4.9 times the height of the slot, and the 'greatest' width of the slot is 3.64 its height.
According to the 'reference' picture the Hub is 2.18 Times the diameter of Orion's length, (which I chose to Ignore in favor of a more 'reasonable' Height for the slot, as described above)
* The 'plan view' drawing of Orion (seen docked) is by DANA LUBICH . The space station is drawn by me !
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