The High Frontier: Human Colonies in SpaceMonograph on future habitation and human settlement in outer space - describes possible habitats for humanity in space colonys, and includes the transcript of a USA congressional hearing on "aerospace technology and national needs". Illustrations and references. |
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Page 63
... cylinder can be collecting solar energy twenty - four hours per day , to run the community's power plant . If we then set up many smaller cylinders near the big ones , and use the small ones for the growing of crops , we will achieve ...
... cylinder can be collecting solar energy twenty - four hours per day , to run the community's power plant . If we then set up many smaller cylinders near the big ones , and use the small ones for the growing of crops , we will achieve ...
Page 92
... cylinder . With such control , there is every reason not only to tailor the climate of each cylinder to favor its particular crop , but to distribute the seasons among the cylinders . They may even run in serial order : January ...
... cylinder . With such control , there is every reason not only to tailor the climate of each cylinder to favor its particular crop , but to distribute the seasons among the cylinders . They may even run in serial order : January ...
Page 100
... cylinder axis . One way to satisfy that condition is to orient the cylinder axis perpendicular to the community's orbit around the sun , and to provide a lightweight mirror , angled at forty - five degrees , to bring in sunshine along ...
... cylinder axis . One way to satisfy that condition is to orient the cylinder axis perpendicular to the community's orbit around the sun , and to provide a lightweight mirror , angled at forty - five degrees , to bring in sunshine along ...
Contents
A LETTER FROM SPACE | 11 |
THE PLANETARY | 34 |
ISLANDS IN SPACE | 61 |
Copyright | |
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