NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?

When fully constructed the Space Station will consist of approximately 70 separate major components and hundreds of minor ones that are due to be launched into space by the year 2004. Some of the ...

O'Neill in his 1976 book. Notably, the cylindrical space station shown in the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar closely resembled an O'Neill cylinder. "[Humans] will be able to use much more ...