Space exploration is always a heating and attractive topic. Kids like me grew up with “Star War” always have some fancy dream about the life in space. But apparently, dream is still dream, the same as those concept design from NASA. While back to 70s, a couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames that planed to house about 10,000 people. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. And if you look at those renderings, you will find: “em, those pictures look familiar, I remember see this one in xxx scientific movie.”
And are 8 images I got from the gallery, click picture to see high-resolution one.
Cylindrical Colonies
Exterior view of a double cylinder colony
Interior view including looking through large windows
Toroidal Colonies
Exterior view of several neighboring colonies
Part of the rim including many nearby space vehicles
Cutaway view, exposing the interior
Bernal Spheres
View with cutaway to see interior
View of Bernal Sphere agricultural module (multiple toroids) with cutaway to expose interior
Colony construction crew at work