Living in Space
Outer space is a harsh and unforgiving environment. To get there, astronauts must ride atop complicated rockets that rely on controlled explosions to attain the terrific speeds require...
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Communities in Space
In 1929 Hermann Noording developed the idea of a large wheel-shaped satellite reminiscent of the space station in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968). In the 1950s Wernher von B...
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L-5 Colonies
A concept to build giant stations in space far from Earth and the Moon, L-5 colonies would be cities in space, located in a gravitational node in the Earth-Moon system. These colonies wou...
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Living on Other Worlds
Many things about Mars would remind a settler of Earth, but some things are quite different. Except for the lack of any vegetation, the sandy, rock-strewn landscape looks much l...
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Settlements
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, people are excited by the prospect of visiting new worlds in outer space. While international space
agencies continue robotic exploration of p...
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Living in Space