Space Wallpaper Friday: Space Station Freedom 1991
(Above) This artist’s concept depicts Space Station Freedom as it would have looked orbiting the Earth. It was Illustrated by Marshall Space Flight Center artist, Tom Buzbee.
This smaller 1991 configuration of the space Station featured a horizontal truss structure that supported U.S., European, and Japanese Laboratory Modules; the U.S. Habitation Module; and three sets of solar arrays. Space Station Freedom was an international, permanently manned, orbiting base proposed by President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
