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Nautilus-X (Non-Atmospheric Universal Transport Intended for Lengthy United States Exploration) is a rotating wheel space station concept developed by engineers Mark Holderman and Edward Henderson of the Technology Applications Assessment Team of NASA.
In 1959, a NASA committee opined that such a space station was the next logical step after the Mercury program. [5] The Stanford torus, proposed by NASA in 1975, is an enormous version of the same concept that could harbor an entire city. [6] NASA has not attempted to build a rotating wheel space station, for several reasons.
A Bishop Ring [1] is a type of hypothetical rotating wheel space station originally proposed in 1997 by Forrest Bishop of the Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering. [2] The concept is a smaller scale version of the Banks Orbital, which itself is a smaller version of the Niven ring. [3]
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Artist's depiction of a pair of O'Neill cylinders Interior view, showing alternating land and window segments. 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]
The cost of the space station has been estimated to be in the "tens of billions". [5] Voyager Station would have partial artificial gravity from its rotation to maintain lunar gravity—approximately 1 ⁄ 6 of Earth's gravity. [3] Above Space has also announced a smaller Pioneer Station [6] that can house only 28 people but could be ...
In 1929, Herman Potočnik's The Problem of Space Travel was published, the first to envision a "rotating wheel" space station to create artificial gravity. [3] Conceptualized during the Second World War, the "sun gun" was a theoretical orbital weapon orbiting Earth at a height of 8,200 kilometres (5,100 mi). No further research was ever ...
A McKendree cylinder is a type of hypothetical rotating space habitat originally proposed at NASA's Turning Goals into Reality conference in 2000 by NASA engineer Tom McKendree. [1] Like other space habitat designs, the cylinder would spin to produce artificial gravity by way of centrifugal force.