Space Station
Dr. Wernher von Braun’s dream was to build a space station like a wheel that was one quarter mile in diameter. The space station was illustrated in the move 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The 400 meter in diameter space station enables people to learn how to live and function in space, mine asteroids, manufacture products, and build spacecraft for exploring & colonizing the moon and other planets. In addition, university/college professors & students would conduct research in space. Since Dennis Tito become the first tourist to visit space on April 30, 2001, other people want to have fun taking vacations in space.
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The space station has twelve ten meter in diameter cylinders,
104 meters long providing over 33,000 square
meters plus additional service area are created (over 350,000 square feet or 8
acres).
The twelve six meter in diameter cylinders, 167 meter long connect the wheel to the 10 meter in diameter circular hub and provide 65,000 cubic meters. The volume is over 160,000 cubic meters. The space station rotates every 28 seconds to produce normal gravity. |
The space station accommodates 500 vacationers plus another 500 engineers, scientists, & their equipment. At $20 million per week (Dennis Tito paid to become the first tourist in space), the gross income would be $520 billion per year, or at $1 million per week, the gross income is $26,000,000,000 per year. If successful, a second space station could be built and called the "Love Boat in the Sky."