Rotating wheel space station
Space station concept
Rotating wheel space station
A rotating wheel space station is a concept for a hypothetical wheel-shaped space station that rotates to produce artificial gravity. It was originally proposed by Herman Potočnik in 1929, which was adapted by Wernher von Braun in 1952 (the von Braun wheel), and subsequently popularized. Eventually the seminal film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) featured a now iconic rotating wheel space station (Space Station V). From 1960-1962 NASA developed a 24-foot prototype of a wheel station, the Erectable Torus Manned Space Laboratory, and a 150ft concept, the Erectable Modular Space Station, that were both cancelled. No recent development of such a space station has been realized or demonstrated, as proposed with the Nautilus-X International Space Station centrifuge demonstrator.
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