With the announcement that an iconic space suit from '2001: A Space Odyssey' is to be auctioned.
Uk press agency Cover Images have unearthed these jaw-dropping 1970s concepts.
They show how the U.S. government pictures a life in space.
NASA Ames & Stanford University conducted 3 Space Colony Summer Studies and a number of eye-popping artistic renderings of the concepts were made.
They see humans living in huge circular structures, complete with gravity.
There are vistas of greenery, trees and lakes.
Researchers concluded: “space colonization is desirable because of the hope it offers humanity."