Colonizing Space, Issue #2: Spin Gravity Demands Balance

This is ‘Voyager Station’, a proposed space hotel and/or business park proposed by Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC). Note the twenty-one ‘shuttles’ that look much like manned versions of the Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane. Considering the larger spacecraft docking, one suspects these smaller spaceplanes’ intended use would be as escape pods. Not a bad idea, really, but the absence of a few may present a major problem. (etreheureux.net)

Here’s a test for your mechanical engineering skills: how many apparent design flaws can you detect in the illustration of the proposed space station above? On the positive side there are notable features such as inflatable habitat modules and readily-available means of escape, but there’s a couple concerns, too.