7 Space Concepts That Were Too Wild for NASA
Artist’s conception of an advanced space habitat. Illustration: Rick Guidice/NASAWith the success of the Apollo missions, NASA turned its eye to the prospect of offworld colonies. The space agency ran its “summer studies” at NASA Ames in 1975, allowing experts and artists to share their visions of what space-based colonies might look like. The resulting concepts were bold, including space habitats in which 10,000 people would “work, raise families, and live out normal human lives,” according to one of several NASA…