A US company has released designs for a cruise ship-style space hotel with a rotating wheel that would create simulated gravity
According to digitally rendered video and images released by the Gateway Foundation, the station resembles a rotating wheel, comprised of 24 modules, orbiting the Earth.Tim Alatorre, senior design architect at the Gateway Foundation, says the rotating wheel would create a simulated gravity.
This could be viewed as a controversial move. While living in Germany, von Braun was involved in the Nazi rocket development program. He later worked on the Apollo space program in the United States. "The basic physics of the station haven't changed since the 1950s, the way the station rotates," says Alatorre.
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