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DIY Space Station: Farmers in the sky

DIY Space Station: Farmers in the sky

As I’ve been designing a space-based habitat that is home to the characters in my “XK9” novels, one of the recurring questions is how will these people feed themselves? On the eve of the US Thanksgiving holiday, it seems an especially apt question. Space Farmer by Jay Wong: if we’re out there, we’ll have to eat. As you may have picked up from comments I’ve made in several of my previous “DIY Space Station” posts, I have some rather pointed…

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Space Station DIY: Bernal Spheres?

Space Station DIY: Bernal Spheres?

I needed a plausible space station for my fictional characters to live in. My research yielded such riches, I decided to share them with you in a series of “Space Station DIY” blog posts. Today, let’s consider the Bernal Sphere. It’s an idea originally cooked up by John Desmond Bernal in 1929. Bernal was primarily known as a pioneer in molecular biology, but his concept of a spherical habitat in space seemed plausible enough for NASA to launch a more…

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