> Helge wrote:
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> Such a station would be really wonderful to have, of course. I'd
> want it named after the first SF author who thought of the idea
> of building a rotating space station. Does anyone know who that was?
> Arthur C. Clarke, maybe? He did think of geosynchronous communications
> satellites.
>
> Clarke wrote about them, but I doubt he was the first. The idea of ring
> shaped space stations such as the one in "2001" comes from Werner von
> Braun - at any rate, he is credited with the design in what I've read.
> This is science rather than SF of course. I've no idea who was the first
> SF writer to use the idea.
>
> Barry Haworth.
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