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Article: Communities in Space
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Communities in Space
In 1929 Hermann Noording developed the idea of a large wheel-shaped satellite reminiscent of the
space station
in the movie
2001: A Space Odyssey
(1968). In the 1950s Wernher von Braun developed a similar plan for a refueling stop on the way to the Moon. But it was Princeton physicist Gerard K. O'Neill who saw huge orbiting communities as a means of salvation for Earth. Overcoming initial skepticism, he gained support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), organized a series of breakthrough workshops, and set forth detailed plans in his 1976 book
The High Frontier.
Although everyone at that time talked in terms of "space colonies," ...
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