Rotating wheel space station. Wernher von Braun 1952 concept.
A rotating wheel space station, also known as a von Braun wheel, is a concept for a hypothetical wheel-shaped space station. Originally proposed by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1903,[1] the idea was expanded by Herman Potočnik in 1929.[2]
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