Jul 062018
For anyone with the usual (for readers of this blog, I imagine) level of knowledge of the O’Neill colony concept, this video does not provide much in the way of new technical info. It is, however, of some historical interest, showing the beginnings of public interest in the concept, from 1975.
Sigh. in 1975, O’Neill thought it reasonable to assume that the Model 1 colony, with a population of 10,000, could be built with an Apollo program level of effort by the late 1980’s, and had originally assumed that a Model 4 could be up and running by the late 2020’s… population in the hundreds of thousands to millions.
Sigh.