Futuristic space station concept. 30 meters from the center pointabout 100 feetthe centripetal acceleration is 033 g or about what youd find on a good sized asteroid. 36 incredible visions of futuristic space stations from our past. The 2001 space station space station v was 300 meters across and made one rotation every minute producing a centripetal acceleration of just over 16 g or what youd find on the moon. In the future artificial gravity will be a requirement for space colonies with large populations.
Another popular idea deals with where a space station should be placed. The future of the space station may be in private hands. Futuristic music about a mysterious space station above a planet thats similar to earth in a far away galaxy. Another is that we lack the technology to practically rotate a large structure like a space station to produce artificial gravity.
Several companies have drawn up plans or visions for commercial space stations to take more people into the final frontier than ever before.