spreading life throughout the solar system
"I know that humans will colonize the solar system and one day go beyond." Mike Griffin, former NASA Administrator.
Humanity has the power to fill outer space with life. Today our solar system is filled with plasma, gas, dust, rock, and radiation -- but very little life; just a thin film around the third rock from the Sun. We can change that. In the 1970's Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University showed that we can build giant orbiting spaceships and live in them. These orbital space colonies could be wonderful places to live; about the size of a California beach town and endowed with weightless recreation, fantastic views, freedom, elbow-room in spades, and great wealth. In time, we may see hundreds of thousands of orbital space settlements in our solar system alone. Building these settlements will be an evolutionary event in magnitude similar to, if not greater than, ocean-based Life's colonization of land half a billion years ago.
A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames . Colonies housing about 10,000
people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made.
Cylindrical Colonies
Toroidal Colonies
Bernal Spheres
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Space Colony Art from the 1970s at NASA
"I know that humans will colonize the solar system and one day go beyond." Mike Griffin, former NASA Administrator.
Humanity has the power to fill outer space with life. Today our solar system is filled with plasma, gas, dust, rock, and radiation -- but very little life; just a thin film around the third rock from the Sun. We can change that. In the 1970's Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University showed that we can build giant orbiting spaceships and live in them. These orbital space colonies could be wonderful places to live; about the size of a California beach town and endowed with weightless recreation, fantastic views, freedom, elbow-room in spades, and great wealth. In time, we may see hundreds of thousands of orbital space settlements in our solar system alone. Building these settlements will be an evolutionary event in magnitude similar to, if not greater than, ocean-based Life's colonization of land half a billion years ago.
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people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made.
Cylindrical Colonies
| Exterior view of a double cylinder colony |
| Exterior view of several two-cylinder colonies |
| Interior view including looking through large windows |
| Interior view with long suspension bridge |
| Interior featuring clouds and vegetation |
| Cutaway view, exposing the interior |
| Part of the rim including many nearby space vehicles |
| Interior view |
| Exterior View |
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| Exterior view of several neighboring colonies |
| Interior including human powered airplane |
| Photograph of a model of the Bernal Sphere |
| Exterior view |
| View with cutaway to see interior |
| Colony construction crew at work |
| View of Bernal Sphere agricultural module (multiple toroids) with cutaway |
Space Colony Art from the 1970s at NASA
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