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A Stanford torus interior (cutaway view) Interior view of a large scale O'Neill cylinder, showing alternating land and window stripes. A space settlement (also called a space habitat, space stead, space city or space colony) is a settlement in outer space, sustaining more extensively habitation facilities in space than a general space station or spacecraft.
A Bernal sphere is a type of space settlement intended as a long-term home for permanent residents, first proposed in 1929 by John Desmond Bernal. Bernal's original proposal described a hollow non-rotating spherical shell 10 mi (16 km) in diameter, with a target population of 20,000 to 30,000 people.
Space colonization has been in a broad sense referred to as space settlement, space humanization or space habitation. [9] Space colonization in a narrow sense refers to space settlements, as envisioned by Gerard K. O'Neill. [10] It is characterized by elements such as: settlement and exploitation, [11] as well as territorial claim. [12]
In 1967, we got the Outer Space Treaty through the United Nations, and that is the main document that governs space. It’s only some 2,000 words long. It’s only some 2,000 words long.
An O'Neill cylinder (also called an O'Neill colony) is a space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his 1976 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. [1] O'Neill proposed the colonization of space for the 21st century, using materials extracted from the Moon and later from asteroids. [2]
The Stanford torus is a proposed NASA design [1] for a space settlement capable of housing 10,000 to 140,000 permanent residents. [ 2 ] The Stanford torus was proposed during the 1975 NASA Summer Study, conducted at Stanford University , with the purpose of exploring and speculating on designs for future space colonies [ 3 ] ( Gerard O'Neill ...
The space agency is racing against China to get the job done, vying to become the first to develop a permanent lunar outpost and set the precedent for deep-space settlements. ... 238,900-mile ...
We were pretty excited about space settlement happening. We had written a book called ... Mars, on average, is 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) away, which means there is always going to ...