orbiting Earth at a height of 8200 km. No further research was ever conducted. In 1951, Wernher von Braun published a concept for a rotating wheel space station in Collier's Weekly, referencing Potocnik's idea. However, development of a rotating station was never begun in the 20th century.

First advances and precursors

The first human flew to space and concluded the first orbit on April

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