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This is CBS I On The World, I'm John Bachelors.

Space and space stations go together since my childhood.

I imagined a space station spinning in low Earth orbit or high Earth orbit to create

artificial gravity.

I was satisfied in 1961 to see that that was what was built by Hollywood.

It's been a disappointment ever since that we do not have artificial gravity in Earth

orbit.

In any of the iterations of space stations, the ISS at current, but Skylab before that,

the Chinese space station, all of the opportunities I've seen these last decades have not included

artificial gravity.

So this is Hotel Bar's episode and in search of artificial gravity, David Livingston,

Dr. Space is my colleague and co-host and co-pilot, and we're very pleased to welcome

Rand Simberg, space consultant, author of Safe is Not An Option.

Rand a very good evening to you, spinning an object in orbit creating artificial gravity.

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