Accommodations

NASA Ames Research Center


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Stanford Torus habitat
(with Solar mirror and
active electron-gun
and passive Lunar-slag
shielding against hard
radiation and micro-
meteors) would rotate to
provide pseudo-gravity.





Only micro-gravity accommodations in orbit around the third planet outward from Sol are available within this system at present. However, construction proposals for bases on Earth's Moon and Mars as well as spacious space settlements with pseudo-gravity via habitat rotation have been in development since the 1970s.




Earth Orbit





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• Mir Space Station (1986-2001)




• International Space Station : accommodations now under construction.

  
  

  
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  International Space
  Station at completion.
  
  
  See also current
  construction as of:
  2/16/01; 12/11/00;
  10/20/00; 9/18/00;
  and 9/10/00.
  




Planetary Bases




• Moon Proposals


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Lunar outpost, forerunner to a
permanent settlement on the Moon.





• Mars Proposals


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Mars outpost for seven people
with a 16-meter, inflated habitat.





Space Settlement Proposals




A Bernal Sphere habitat (at lower right of image below) can house over 100,000 people and support two possible space industries. Solar Power Satellites (SPS) and processing of near-Earth asteroids provide energy for a power-hungry planet as well as material resources for further development of planetary and orbital exploration and colonization.





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Space settlements will be needed
for exploiting Solar energy and
asteroidal and cometary resources.