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McKendree cylinder, the Glossary

Index McKendree cylinder

A McKendree cylinder is a type of hypothetical rotating space habitat originally proposed at NASA's Turning Goals into Reality conference in 2000 by NASA engineer Tom McKendree.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 11 relations: Artificial gravity, Carbon nanotube, Eurasia, Gerard K. O'Neill, NASA, O'Neill cylinder, Orion's Arm, Reaction wheel, Russia, Space settlement, Steel.

  2. Carbon nanotubes
  3. Megastructures
  4. Space habitats

Artificial gravity

Artificial gravity is the creation of an inertial force that mimics the effects of a gravitational force, usually by rotation.

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Carbon nanotube

A scanning tunneling microscopy image of a single-walled carbon nanotube Rotating single-walled zigzag carbon nanotube A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a tube made of carbon with a diameter in the nanometre range (nanoscale). McKendree cylinder and carbon nanotube are carbon nanotubes.

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Eurasia

Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.

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Gerard K. O'Neill

Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6, 1927 – April 27, 1992) was an American physicist and space activist.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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O'Neill cylinder

An O'Neill cylinder (also called an O'Neill colony) is a space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his 1976 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. McKendree cylinder and O'Neill cylinder are Megastructures and space habitats.

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Orion's Arm

Orion's Arm (also called the Orion's Arm Universe Project, OAUP, or simply OA and formerly known as the Orion's Arm Worldbuilding Group) is a multi-authored online science fiction world-building project, first established in 2000 by M. Alan Kazlev, Donna Malcolm Hirsekorn, Bernd Helfert and Anders Sandberg and further co-authored by many people since.

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Reaction wheel

A reaction wheel (RW) is used primarily by spacecraft for three-axis attitude control, and does not require rockets or external applicators of torque.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Space settlement

A space settlement (also called a space habitat, spacestead, space city or space colony) is a settlement in outer space, sustaining more extensively habitation facilities in space than a general space station or spacecraft. McKendree cylinder and space settlement are space habitats.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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See also

Carbon nanotubes

Megastructures

Space habitats

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKendree_cylinder