This was a book I owned as a child and it fascinated me. It was originally printed in 1959, when even the concept of a person in outer space was more science fiction than fact.
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Ah. When I turned 7 my father gave me as a bday present a box full of illustrated books, which by the way were British, and some of those were about the future. Some of it was really...well...like this...
@OnePatheticClown I still say the spinning wheel is probably the best design we've come up with for a space station with simulated gravity, and I'm disappointed that nobody's tried to make one.
@OnePatheticClown I remember collecting a fortnightly science magazine back in the late 80's called Quest... That had a lot of similar concepts of what the 21st century might look like. 乂º◡º乂
That had a lot of similar concepts of what the 21st century might look like.