Von Braun Space Station

As its name implies the concept for the station is inspired in part by the ideas of wernher von braun who pioneered in the field of human spaceflight first for nazi germany and then for the u s.

Von braun space station. The von braun class space station. The design a toroidal station spun to provide artificial gravity would be made very familiar to the american public over the next six years. Each module offers a total of 500m2 of habitable surface spread over 3 floors so that s a total of 12 000m2 for the 24 modules. Originally proposed by konstantin tsiolkovsky in 1903 the idea was expanded by herman potočnik in 1929.

The von braun station is composed of 24 cylindrical modules each one is 20 meter long and has a diameter of 12 meters. Von braun envisioned these expeditions as very large scale undertakings with a total of 50 astronauts traveling in three huge spacecraft two for crew one primarily for cargo each 49 m 160 76 ft long and 33 m 108 27 ft in diameter and driven by a rectangular array of 30 rocket propulsion engines. A hub and spokes design evolved from the toroidal spinning space station proposed by wernher von braun in the 1950s. The von braun class of station will be a rotating space station designed to produce varying levels of artificial gravity by increasing or decreasing the rate of rotation.

The station will be designed from the start to accommodate both national space agencies conducting low gravity research and space tourists who want to experience life on a large space station with the comfort of low gravity and the feel of a nice hotel. A space odyssey would draw heavily on the design concept in its visualization of an orbital space station. Wernher von braun 1952 concept. A rotating wheel space station also known as a bublik city russian.

In the first 1946 summary of his work during world war ii wernher von braun prophesied the construction of space stations in orbit. Total volume of these 24 modules will amount to 2130m3.