SPACE COLONIES

At the peak of the Space Race, both the Russian

and
the United States space agencies were developing plans to establish permanent
space colonies in orbit around our
planet and beyond. In fact, in 1975, NASAs Ames Research Center
gathered 19 professors at Stanford University
for 10 weeks with intention of not only designing what a human space colony
would look like, but also figuring out how these systems might function as
self-sufficient, long-term human outposts. The team of researchers was
given a theoretical budget of roughly $35 billion dollars

(or
about $200 billion in 2017 when adjusted for inflation) to create these
apparatuses.

While these massive structures may seem straight out of vintage pulp
fiction, these colonies were well within our technical and engineering
capabilities

40
years ago, and its even been argued that a series of such permanent
colonies could be readily constructed for less than what the U.S. spends
annually

on
its military.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/space-colony-nasa-archives/

Russian
and the United States space agencies were developing plans to establish
permanent space colonies
in orbit around our planet and beyond. In fact, in 1975, NASAs
Ames Research Center
gathered 19 professors at Stanford University for 10 weeks with intention of not only designing what a human space colony would look like, but also figuring out how these systems might function as self-sufficient, long-term human outposts. The team of researchers was given a theoretical budget of roughly
$35 billion dollars
(or about $200 billion in 2017 when adjusted for inflation) to create these apparatuses.
While these massive structures may seem straight out of vintage pulp fiction, these colonies were well within our technical and
engineering capabilities
40 years ago, and its even been argued that a series of such permanent colonies could be readily constructed for less than what the U.S.
spends annually
on its military.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/space-colony-nasa-archives/