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A space settlement (also called a space habitat, spacestead, 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. Possibly including closed ecological systems, its particular purpose is permanent habitation.
Currently there are also no plans for building a space colony by any government. However, many proposals, speculations, and designs, particularly for extraterrestrial settlements have been made through the years, and a considerable number of space colonization advocates and groups are active.
Space Colony: Steam Edition was released on April 30, 2015. This version includes a number of exclusive Steam features such as achievements, trading cards, and Steam Cloud for saved games. Also supported are high resolution graphics settings of the previous HD version, allowing players to view their entire colony while playing on a single screen.
An O'Neill cylinder (also called an O'Neill colony, or Island Three) 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]
Interior of a Stanford torus, painted by Donald E. Davis Collage of figures and tables of Stanford Torus space habitat, from «Space Settlements: A Design Study» book. Charles Holbrow and Richard D. Johnson, NASA, 1977. The Stanford torus is a proposed NASA design [1] for a space settlement capable of housing 10,000 to 140,000 permanent ...
In the setting of the anime television series Mobile Suit Gundam 00, space colonies are based on underdeveloped technology, and only small-sized colonies, such as the Bernal sphere-shaped "Quanqiu" located in Lagrange 3, make an appearance. In the anime television series Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, the space colony Moon Moon is a Bernal sphere.
The Colony also offers coffee and cocktails in the Living Room, and serves in-room dining from 6 a.m.-12 a.m.. The Colony Hotel’s Poolside Press Carmel Brantley
Space colony may refer to: Space colonization, the establishment of any colony outside the planet Earth; Space settlement, a free-floating extraterrestrial settlement ...