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NASA SP-413 — SPACE SETTLEMENTS — A Design Study
Figure 5-7 — View of housing.
Figure 5-8 — Allocation of space in the colony.
of information from your companion. To resist the atmospheric pressure and the centrifugal forces of its own mass as well as the internal masses, the shell has a skin thickness of 2.1 cm. The windows through which sunlight streams are some 65 m “above” you and are 2.8 cm thick.
Buried in the walls and under the decks of the torus are thousands of kilometers of wires and piping for electrical power distribution, water supply, waste disposal, and air dehumidifying.
Chapter 5 — A Tour Of The Colony