TERESTRIAL SPACE ARCHITECTURE

摘要

Given that there is only one structure in Space - the International Space Station -that can properly be called a space habitat, the number of examples of terrestrial space buildings far exceeds the number of actual space buildings. Though many are inaccessible to the general public for security reasons, two such buildings -Mission Control in Houston, Texas, and the Launch Control Center and Vehicle Assembly Building in Cape Canaveral, Florida - were nonetheless beamed into the living rooms of every family watching the various NASA missions on TV -especially during the heady days of the Apollo programme (1967-72) - and have become the public face of terrestrial space architecture.