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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, 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.
Uniform region – "defined by some uniform cultural or physical characteristic", such as the Bible Belt or New England [1] Functional region – space organized around a focal point, such as a metropolitan area [ 1 ] or around the flow of something, like the water of the Amazon Basin , or the flow of travelers in an airport [ 4 ]
Space colonization has been in a broad sense referred to as space settlement, space humanization or space habitation. [16] Space colonization in a narrow sense refers to space settlements, as envisioned by Gerard K. O'Neill. [17] It is characterized by elements such as: settlement and exploitation, [18] as well as territorial claim. [19]
Near-Earth space is the region of space extending from low Earth orbits out to geostationary orbits. [107] This region includes the major orbits for artificial satellites and is the site of most of humanity's space activity. The region has seen high levels of space debris, sometimes dubbed space pollution, threatening nearby space activity. [107]
How many astronauts does it take to answer questions from a bunch of kids? In this case, two. National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronauts Tracy Dyson and Matthew Dominick answered ...
The region around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as seen from the Russian space station Mir in 1997. The 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) long cooling pond of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is visible from space. In April 1997 it was photographed from the Mir space station, which was in orbit somewhere between 296 km (184 mi) and 421 km (262 mi).
The ominous eye of Hurricane Milton is visible in stunning detail from outer space in a timeplapse video released Tuesday by NASA.. From 275 miles above Earth, the powerful storm can be seen ...
The word space in space architecture is referring to the outer space definition, which is from English outer and space. Outer can be defined as "situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior" and originated around 1350–1400 in Middle English. [4] Space is "an area, extent, expanse, lapse of time," the aphetic of Old French espace ...