Can the Moon be given an earthlike atmosphere?

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Thread: Can the Moon be given an earthlike atmosphere?

# 21573 byEd Minchau on April 16, 2007, 4:32 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

> You may ask, "Why retain the spheres? Why not go
> with flat vertical
> bulkheads?" That might be fine for a smaller space
> station of less
> than 100 meters torus thickness, but for a colony
> larger than one
> kilometer thickness we need curvature on the
> pressure bulkheads. A
> sphere is the ultimate curvature.
>

Roger, a torus is already a curved hull - no flat
surfaces anywhere.

Ed