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To: demlosers
Who would have ever thought something like artificial gravity would be necessary for long term space inhabitation?


9 posted on 11/27/2004 2:14:38 PM PST by Gumption
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To: Gumption
Before Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke conceived of an orbiting rotating space station, Wernher Von Braun, Willy Ley, and Chesley Bonestell had already developed the idea in Colliers Magazine in March of 1954 .


36 posted on 11/27/2004 7:09:15 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Gumption
And here's a sketch that Wernher Von Braun presented to the US Army in 1946:


37 posted on 11/27/2004 7:10:32 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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