The rise and fall of Artificial Gravity

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130121-worth-the-weight

Towards the end of the Apollo Moon programme, in the late 1960s, Nasa
commissioned studies from industry on future space stations. All the
designs specified that artificial gravity would be essential.

These old space station studies now look completely archaic, says David
Baker, editor of Spaceflight magazine and a former Nasa engineer who worked
on the concepts. The Skylab missions [of the mid 1970s] proved that the
whole point of having a space station was to do microgravity research, so
we abandoned the artificial gravity idea.

Now, though, he says, they might be worth revisiting.

Towards the end of the Apollo Moon programme, in the late 1960s, Nasa commissioned studies from industry on future space stations. All the designs specified that artificial gravity would be essential.
These old space station studies now look completely archaic, says David Baker, editor of Spaceflight magazine and a former Nasa engineer who worked on the concepts. The Skylab missions [of the mid 1970s] proved that the whole point of having a space station was to do microgravity research, so we abandoned the artificial gravity idea.
Now, though, he says, they might be worth revisiting.