COMMERCIAL SPACE STATION CATALHOYUK
A few years ago, I decided to build a space station using an old mountain bike wheel as a starting point. After about 18 months of on-again, off-again construction, the result is what you see here. I am very pleased with the finished product, which depicts a space station that would be placed in Earth orbit about 5,000 kilometers in altitude, slowly rotating to impart gravity upon the outer rim. The station is named after the first permanent human settlement on Earth, Catalhoyuk, which was founded about 9,000 years ago in what is now the nation of Turkey. In some of the pictures, you can see little windows, illuminated with fiber optics. Note the commercial logos here and there: International Space University, McDonalds, Starbucks, Microsoft, CNN, DHL, etc...
