This film is part of collection of four short NASA films from the 1970s (Space Colonization, Autotram, Space Pioneers, and New Advances in Plane Design), giving viewers a look at various developments in space exploration and flight. In Space Colonization, NASA’s Chief of Life Sciences Experiment Office Dr. Richard Johnson speaks to the camera about a disc-shaped space colony named the Stanford torus. The film opens with images and animation showing future renderings of space colonies. Viewers see an animation of torus (01:20). Orbiting solar panels collect energy from the Sun. A model shows the detailed inside of torus (02:28), including an agricultural zone designed to feed up to 10,000 people.

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