space habitat

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A space settlement is a settlement in outer space, sustaining more extensively habitation facilities in space than a general space station or spacecraft. Possibly including closed ecological systems, its particular purpose is permanent habitation.

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space colony; space settlement
space habitat, astroengineering object, 
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  • Bernal sphere
    long-term space habitat, proposed in 1929 by J. D. Bernal, consisting of a large hollow spherical shell filled with air
  • Bishop Ring
    hypothetical rotating space habitat
  • inflatable space habitat
    habitat whose volume can be increased after launch
  • McKendree cylinder
    hypothetical rotating space habitat originally proposed at NASA's Turning Goals into Reality conference in 2000 by NASA engineer Tom McKendree
  • O'Neill colony
    hypothetical space colonies
  • Stanford torus
    space habitat
  • Terrarium
    fictional space habitat in the Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312
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classspace objectBernal spherespace habitatWikidata
classspace objectBishop Ringspace habitatWikidata
classspace objectinflatable space habitatinflatable space structure, space habitatWikidata
classspace objectMcKendree cylinderspace habitatWikidata
classspace objectO'Neill colonyspace habitatWikidata
classspace objectStanford torusrotating wheel space station, space habitatWikidata
classspace objectTerrariumspace habitatWikidata
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