McKendree cylinder
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McKendree cylinder
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A McKendree cylinder is a type of hypothetical rotating space habitat originally proposed at NASA's Turning Goals into Reality conference in 2000 by NASA engineer Tom McKendree. Like other space habitat designs, the cylinder would spin to produce artificial gravity by way of centrifugal force. The design differs from the classical designs produced in the 1970s by Gerard K. O'Neill and NASA in that it would use carbon nanotubes instead of steel, allowing the habitat to be built much larger. In th
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Hypothetical rotating space habitat
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKendree_cylinder
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2024-04-11T23:10:14Z
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