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I posted this question on the sci.space.tech newsgroup but that place seems deader than a door nail. So, here it is for all of you: I just finished reading This New Ocean that covers the space age. I really wasn't looking forward to the Skylab part but after I read it and then googled up the pictures of Skylab I was happily surprised. That Skylab looked pretty cool. It looked like a real lab. It looked big, unlike the current space station that looks like stupid trash cans hooked together. Anyway, everybody has seen old pictures from the past (like the 1950's) with scientists images of what a space station may look like in the future. It's the classic space station look - a big wheel spinning slowly around (creating gravity), something like the space station in 2001 A Space Odyssey. My question: are those classic looking space stations possible? Would it be possible with today's technology to build one of these stations that actually spins around creating gravity? Would spinning a big pin wheel shaped space station work? What's are the negatives to such a station besides cost? |
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The "Classic Space Station" that you describe is known as The Von Braun
space station, because that's what he wanted to see built. It would work and it is possible to build it with today's technology, all it takes is the desire. |
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wrote in message ups.com... The "Classic Space Station" that you describe is known as The Von Braun space station, because that's what he wanted to see built. It would work and it is possible to build it with today's technology, all it takes is the desire. And would it create gravity? |
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"Von Fourche" writes:
wrote in message ups.com... The "Classic Space Station" that you describe is known as The Von Braun space station, because that's what he wanted to see built. It would work and it is possible to build it with today's technology, all it takes is the desire. And would it create gravity? Yes, of course! :-) http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys311...e_station.html -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ "You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand!" |
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"Von Fourche" wrote in message ink.net... wrote in message ups.com... The "Classic Space Station" that you describe is known as The Von Braun space station, because that's what he wanted to see built. It would work and it is possible to build it with today's technology, all it takes is the desire. And would it create gravity? Well, it would create a force akin to gravity, but with some differences. |
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