Building a Space Station on Earth

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams

Published October 14, 2020 at 11:59 AM CDT

The International Space Station, as seen in October 2018.

We head into the Ozarks at Large archives once more, this time to 1999, when University of Arkansas architecture students participated in a semester-long workshop to create infrastructure for a long-term space station. The assembly of the International Space Station started in 1998.

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