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Russia has quietly taken a science fiction staple and turned it into a legal blueprint, securing a patent for a rotating ...

Russia’s state-owned Energia rocket company has secured a patent for a space station designed to generate artificial gravity.

According to the patent, habitable modules would rotate around a central axis to simulate gravity for crew by producing an outward-pushing centrifugal force.