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11 space station concepts that eventually led to the ISS

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From early designs, it seems people sure wanted to live in wheel- and ring-shaped space habitats. While that hasn’t quite come to be yet — Mir, Skylab, the International Space Station and China’s forthcoming Tiangong space station are all capsule-based — it’s still interesting to see what space habitation looked like when engineers and artists only had their imaginations, hopes and dreams to guide them.

Wired’s Adam Mann has a fantastic write-up on some of the most interesting and forgotten space station concepts to ever be imagined, and he’s dug up quite a bit of information on each — it’s well worth the read.
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