NASA Ames Research Center
Space Settlements: A Design Study (NASA SP-413)
Study · written 1 January 1977 · released 1 January 1977
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The report of the 1975 NASA Ames–Stanford summer study that designed a rotating space colony for 10,000 people, the 'Stanford torus', complete with agriculture, shielding and economics. Its famous paintings outlived the engineering. The engineering is all here, and it is surprisingly rigorous.
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NASA Ames Research Center. "Space Settlements: A Design Study (NASA SP-413)." 1 January 1977. Released 1 January 1977. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19770014162 (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0043).