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Incredible Technology: How to Build a Space Station Colony

Life in a space colony would be different from life on Earth.

Gravity might be a thing of the past, everyone could drink distilled urine, and a whole generation of Earthlings may grow up without ever having set foot on the surface of the planet. At the moment, those ideas are still firmly set in the realm of science fiction, but in the next 1,000 years, new technologies could be developed that would enable humanity to colonize space.

While a self-sustaining space station colony might be a long way off, scientists are still working to design and perhaps even build a space station that goes beyond low-Earth orbit.

“It extends the capability of humans to be out in space away from Earth,” Paul Bookout, project manager of the concept demonstrator for Deep Space Habitat at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., said of building a space station in deep space. “For example if you could go to a near-Earth asteroid and you had a habitat out there, you could stay extended periods of time … and do research on the asteroid, bring samples back in, continuing work out there instead of trying to bring small samples back to Earth.”

“Elysium” — a new science fiction film about a world in which only the rich and powerful can live in a seemingly utopic space station orbiting Earth — is the newest in a long line of movies dealing with the science of space living.

“The premise is totally believable to me,” Mark Uhran, a former assistant associate administrator for the International Space Station at NASA Headquarters, said of the movie. “When I took a look at the Elysium station, I thought to myself, that’s certainly achievable within this millennium.”

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