Praised for its special effects, the movie based its space station concept on Wernher Von Braun's model. Kubrick's station in the movie was 900 feet in diameter, orbited 200 miles above Earth ...

but in the meantime enjoy this gallery of some great space station concepts! Want to find the images and browse yourself? Here’s one gallery from NASA’s history office, and one from the ...

On the plus side, you can make one a hell of lot smaller than you can a toroidal space station, but the concept is more complicated: the rotation makes it tough to keep its solar panels (which are ...

NASA bills the International Space Station as “the most complex scientific and technological endeavor ever undertaken.” Perhaps that is so, but its guts are so 1980s. That's because the 44 ...

Voyager has been managing the development of a privately owned space station called Starlab for several years. The Starlab station concept was one of three selected by NASA for funding in 2021 ...