Nov 132012
No further data than the painting. Found some years back in the Boeing archive, so possibly North American Aviation. Appears to depict a dry-lab station built from Saturn V components, in this case apparently a shortened S-II stage.The Apollo capsule docked to the side seems a somewhat dubious proposition; there doesn’t appear to be an airlock there.
The use of such a space station as a mounting point for large astronomical telescopes such as shown here is also dubious. Vibrations, everything from solar panels being turned to air circulation systems to fluids being pumped to crewmen bumping around, would contribute to a pretty noisy image.
There are two documents on the NTRS about that proposed station.
Saturn 5 single launch space station and observatory facility, study contract – Midterm oral review
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.go/19700075027_1970075027.pdf
The second and more interesting document discusses using the station simulate various aspects of the planned Mars Flyby mission in Earth orbit.
Saturn 5 single launch space station and observation facility. Combined mission concept evaluation Final report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.go/19700018358_1970018358.pdf