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From: "ronwaldyo" 
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-+- In trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com, Jay Hailey wrote:
> >  >
>
>       That is a single person work pod from
> the Denevan Spacedock Mitrieaux Station.  It's
> a mixed mode craft designed to work in vacuum and
> in an pressurized zero G environment.  Mitrieaux
> has the large air lokc in know space and keeps
> three dry dock slips in a pressurized container,
> almost a kilometer across.
>
> Cycling the look is expensive,  but Mitreaux
> Spacewerks claims that it pays for itself by
> the efficieny of crews who can work in shirt
> sleeves.
>
> Starfleet doesn't allow it's ships to be serviced
> in the "Airdock" at Mitreaux Station, citing
> uncertainty in bathing open hulls in a nitrogen/oxygen
> atmosphere.
>
> Studies are currently on going,  but the
> management of Terra-Baldur-Marduk Space lines
> swear by it and are conducting talks with capital
> investors to build an "Airdock" in Earth Orbit.
>
> Jay ~Meow!~

First off, I like this.  Nicely done.

Secondly, this makes the term "drydock" more like it's naval
counterpart. Though, I love the term "Airdock."  I think it would
make for an incredible story setting or even just for a scene or two.

-Michael Gray
Star Trek: Dark Horizon
http://hometown.aol.com/darkhrzn91701/main.htm



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