Unit 6: The Omni Future Almanac

I. World Population Total

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II. Space Careers

By 2050, people will be living in space. Their jobs are: Computer programmer and hardware experts Space habitat builders Industrial engineers Flight crew members for shuttle flights Support and life-sustaining industries Manufacturing and mining III. Living in Space

A. Space Stations

Skylab

Salyut

B. Moon Stations

Used as base for mining operation or factory

Most striking plans is by George Von Tiesenhousen and Wesley Dabro of the Marshall Space Flight Center based on the previous ideas of John Von Neumann. The facilities would have 4 parts: Collection unit which would mine the materials

Process unit which would manipulate these resources

Production System which fabricate them into subassemblies, and Universal constructor unit which would arrange the pieces into a replica of the original facilities.

C. Space Colonies

Toroidal Colony