NASA Archives - Radically Retro

Space colony concept from NASA and the Ames Research Center in the 1970s. Interior view looking out through large windows of a cylindrical shaped space colony.

An Exciting Look at Space Colony Living From the 1970s & NASA

It seems that back in the 1970s over the course of three summers, artists and scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center set out to envision what living in a space colony in the future might look like.

Turns out it’s pretty ambitious.