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Space Exploration

Colonizing Space - '70s Style!

20095 minPGdoc-short

The NASA video envisions O'Neal colonies and mining camps on the Moon by the year 2000.

Space Exploration

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Colonizing Space - '70s Style!

2009• 5 minPG

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The NASA video envisions O'Neal colonies and mining camps on the Moon by the year 2000.

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This NASA video from the 1970s captures a time of great optimism about space exploration following the completion of The Apollo missions. It discusses the ongoing Space Shuttle program and envisions a future where affordable and frequent flights to space enable the construction of O'Neal colonies and mining camps on the Moon. The video highlights innovative ideas such as tiered greenhouses in space and the potential for unlimited solar power beamed back to Earth, all projected to be realized before the year 2000.

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