SPACE OPERATIONS CENTER EVOLUTION
Notes:
NASA's Johnson Spaceflight Center extended the Boeing contract in February 1982 to study a cheaper, modular, evolutionary approach to assembling the Space Operations Center. Depicted here is the initial power module, which consists of solar arrays and radiators.
The next launches would have delivered a space tug “garage”, two pressurized crew modules and a logistics module.
The completed Space Operations Center also would have contained a satellite servicing & assembly facility and several laboratory modules. Even with this revised approach, however, the cost of the SOC program had grown to $9 billion.
