Spinwheel space station projecs

You should probably spend more time there than trying to jack up your post number. The idea of this website is to CONTRIBUTE.
 
Only two sites are needed! ;D

From Encyclopaedia Astronautica we have:

US Stations http://www.astronautix.com/craftfam/usstions.htm

Check out the Von Braun Station, LORL, USAF Recommended Station, Lockheed 1963 Space Station, Self-deploying Space Station and Space Base on this page.

The Soviet TKS Heavy Space Station also rotates to provide gravity. http://www.astronautix.com/craft/tksation.htm

From Marcus Lindroos' wonderful site we get this page http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Station/Slides/sld001.htm Whilst dealing with Space in the 80's it has a summary of the rotational 'Space Base' projects of NASA in the late 60's.

Starviking
 
No thread on space stations is complete without this one:

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Services/Education/SpaceSettlement/75SummerStudy/Table_of_Contents1.html
 
starviking said:
The Soviet TKS Heavy Space Station also rotates to provide gravity.

As shown in the documentary "Armageddon."

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:p
 
My experience in "spinwheel" projects is limited to a singular college course, but from what I learned from it, such a space station isn't very practical. That said, it was a very "trendy" thing during the Space Age and Cold War, and a number of serious military/civilian projects have been proposed, too many for me to list.
 

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