Talk:Manned Orbiting Laboratory

Russian vs Soviet
I corrected this article's incorrect use of the term 'Russian' when 'Soviet [Union]' was clearly meant. It amazes me that people who obsess about minute technical details continue to get this wrong over and over and over and over again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.44.223.44 (talk) 07:56, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Helium/Oxygen Atmosphere
I don't know if the Air Force guys were nuts? Isn't helium/oxygen gas mixtures used in deep-sea diving? I wonder if it was chosen delibertaly so that the MOL astronaut sound like "Alvin and the Chipmunks" (watch the diving crews for the U.S.S. Monitor programs on the Discovery Channel). At least the Soviet Almaz military space station and the Skylab space station used oxygen/nitrogen, with the former at sea-level pressure and Skylab at a 3:1 ratio (3 parts oxygen to 1 part nitrogen). Rwboa22 01:40, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Secret aspects?
This article doesn't even mention that aspects of this program were closely guarded secrets at the time. All I know about this subject is what I saw on Nova, so I'm reluctant to write much about this myself. ike9898 (talk) 14:28, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Picture of th 14 astronauts
You have the names of the astronauts listed but were wrong on one of them. The bottom row left, first person is Col. Lachlan Macleay, USAF and not Lt Commander John Finley. If nothing else you can tell the difference in the uniform. Col. Macleay is in the USAF. Also Finley left in 1968, and could not be in this picture if the replacement 1968 class in this picture (other than Robert Lawrence who had already died in a plane crash.) Check PBS program Astrospies for details. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AnnieAF (talk • contribs) 07:49, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

intended orbit
The article claims that the intended orbit was to be polar (which makes sense for a reconnaissance mission), however it also claims that the intended launch site was to be Cape Canaveral. Is there a reference that supports this? Cape Canaveral is normally not used for launches with polar inclinations. That is normally done at Vandenburg due to the increased risk of overflight over populated areas of the east coast at Canaveral. Was the editor here making the assumption that since the one and only test launch of MOL was done at Cape Canaveral that missions would be launched from there as well? --RadioFan (talk) 13:52, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Manned Orbital Laboratory
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Manned Orbital Laboratory's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "astrospies": From Lachlan Macleay:  From Almaz:  From Richard E. Lawyer:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 14:11, 15 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Apologies accepted bot. They are essentially identical.  Title differences are in significant.--RadioFan (talk) 14:39, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Failed verification in lead
The "NASA Archives on MOL" PDF document that was used in two places as the first citation reference, says nothing at all about the X-20 DynaSoar, the Air Force, reconnaissance, or any other military use of the stations described. Therefore, I don't see how it can be used to verify the two statements to which it was linked. The phrase "manned orbital laboratory" does not seem to be used in context of an official program name, so the statement of that being the original name is suspect as well. All this document proves, is that NASA studied some space station concepts in 1963, mentioning the use of Gemini as a shuttle vehicle. I kept it as an external link, because it's of related interest, of course.

We really need some authoritative, Air Force documentation for verification (though this is understandably hard to come by, given its military nature.) JustinTime55 (talk) 15:57, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

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Merger discussion
The article at KH-10 Dorian should be merged into Manned Orbiting Laboratory. They're clearly referring to the same spacecraft and the presence of the KH-10 Dorian article is confusing.
 * Support. They are the same spacecraft, and there is nothing in this article that is not covered in the Manned Orbiting Laboratory article. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  19:56, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Converted to a redirect. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:02, 18 November 2020 (UTC)