Get Your Ass to Space

This week on Gizmodo and io9 , we ’re escaping the gravity well of Earth . We ’ll be exploring every aspect of humanity ’s future place habitats — from how we ’ll grow ecosystems in infinite vessels and work up our first Moon theme , to what physicist think are the most realistic space structures you ’ve see in pic .

Pop culture has always been a goldmine for stories about mammoth space social organisation that human will build for themselves ( and other Earth life ) , whether it ’s the O’Neill cylinders of Interstellar , the ringworld of Halo , or the Death Stars from Star Wars . Plus , of course , there are all the classical tales of outer space home ground , like Rendezvous With Rama , Ringworld , and Downbelow Station . We love the fancy , but we love the realness too .

This is an astonishing time for quad geographic expedition , with expansions to the International Space Station , successful launch of private ballistic capsule from SpaceX , and the Martian rover continuing their epic journey across the Red Planet ’s airfoil . Not to bring up all the satellite in orbit around Earth and other planets , plusthe spacecraft New Horizonsthat has just rendezvoused with Pluto , andVoyager 1 ’s recent saltation beyond the bound of our solar organization . It ’s truthful we do n’t have a Moon base or a Martian city yet , but we ’re using our space robots to gather all the datum we ’ll demand to build them one day .

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