In the new movie Elysium, Earth is beyond repair, and the rich and powerful have decided to leave it behind.
Instead of three to six highly trained astronauts circling the Earth in an orbiting laboratory as there are today, the Elysium space station serves as an oasis for those that can afford it. In the film, humanity has developed a large, rotating space station above a dystopic Earth by the year 2154. The station comes stocked with mansions, grass, trees, water and gravity.
Although that kind of brave new world might sound far-fetched, the space station's design — and the science behind it — isn't. Read more...
More about Space, Movies, Movie, Space Station, and Film Reported by Mashable 5 hours ago.
Instead of three to six highly trained astronauts circling the Earth in an orbiting laboratory as there are today, the Elysium space station serves as an oasis for those that can afford it. In the film, humanity has developed a large, rotating space station above a dystopic Earth by the year 2154. The station comes stocked with mansions, grass, trees, water and gravity.
Although that kind of brave new world might sound far-fetched, the space station's design — and the science behind it — isn't. Read more...
More about Space, Movies, Movie, Space Station, and Film Reported by Mashable 5 hours ago.