Another reason to question the accuracy of the Dorian drawings featured in
Dwayne Day's recent article in the
Space Review. At the base of the stack, behind the Hexagon forward section, is bright, disk-shaped object. It looks for all the world like a big mirror, like the mirror at one end of Hubble. But placing the Hexagon forward section where it would obstruct the mirror is plainly ridiculous, so I didn't comment on it until I thought I understood it. The placement of the mirror only makes sense if Hexagon is not there and the compartment is an empty cavity of the KH-10 optical system. This is additional evidence of a quickie kludge concept; someone forgot to tell the artist to lose the mirror.
Ode to Big Bird, Part 8: Dorian and Hexagon
More Declassified Drawings of Manned Orbiting Laboratory (Dorian)
Ode to Little Bird
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