Sep 232013
Artwork from the 1960’s (latter half of the decade) depicting a six-man space station. This was published in “Lockheed Horizons,” so almost certainly depicts a Lockheed concept. it is shown being services by Gemini-derived logistics craft. While these were McDonnell vehicles, Lockheed really didn’t have an important space logistics craft of their own in design, so they didn’t have much choice in the matter but to use either the McDonnell Gemini or the North American Apollo.
This design is clear similar to the Manned Orbital Laboratory. Like the MOL, this design was meant for launch atop a Titan III. Length uncertain, but diameter would be about 10 feet.
Good inference in the face of almost no additional data. I have only seen the checkerboard paint job on the Gemini retro module in one other place, on some pre-1964 Gemini illustrations. Lockheed may have published this in the late 1960s, but that detail, plus the general “shininess” of the concept and the excessively artistic detail make me think it was from earlier in the decade, not influenced by actual flight experience.