Visualizing Orbital Space Settlements

OBJECTIVE: To visualize orbital space settlements

CONTENT AREAS: Technical Illustrations, Scientific Visualization

In this lesson you are going to study visual images offered at the Home Page of NASA Orbital Space Settlements. First visit these links:

• NASA Space Settlement art
• Space Studies Institute Art
• Illustrations from "Millennium Project"
• Dumbbell Shaped Space Settlement Animation
• Cylinder Shaped Space Settlement Animation
• Torus Shaped Space Settlement Animation
• Student CAD Projects
• Lewis One Cylinder Space Colony Design
• Student art work from 1999 entries

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Study both exterior and interior images.
• Make a rough, hollow clay model of a torus, dumbbell, cylinder, sphere shaped space settlement. Rotate your structure around an imaginary axis, and try to guess which direction you would be forced to move if you lived INSIDE these structures.
• Make a sketch of your initial design .
• Study the overall concept of orbital space settlements
• Study the history of the concept of orbital space settlements
• Study alternatives for the Shape of orbital space settlements
• Take the Quiz for Week 1

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Author: Tugrul Sezen
sezen@nas.nasa.gov

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