Documentary featuring Princeton visionary physicist Gerard O’Neill premieres Saturday, April 17
Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications
April 16, 2021 10:33 a.m.
The documentary film “The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill,” premiering Saturday, April 17, will introduce a new generation to O Neill, a Princeton physics professor and inventor who sparked a grassroots movement to build Earth-like habitats in space. (View the trailer.)
O’Neill is best known for his 1977 book, “The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space,” which details how humans can build rotating space habitats in low-Earth orbit using a design he called the “O’Neill Cylinder.”
O’Neill Cylinders were designed to recreate Earth’s gravity and house millions of people for work and play, with the goal of solving the major concerns facing Earth such as hunger, overpopulation, dwindling resources and war.
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The High Frontier Live Premiere Event Announcement The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O Neill tells the untold story of Dr. Gerard K. O Neill who wrote the 1977 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space, which sparked a grassroots movement to build Earth-like habitats in space in order to solve Earth s greatest crises. The film is told through Gerry s Kids as they affectionately call themselves; his peers, family, and the younger generation who followed that movement and are now leading the modern-day space industry.
Top-Billed Cast: Dr. Gerard K. O Neill, Tasha O Neill, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Isaac Asimov, Freeman Dyson, Arthur C. Clarke, Johnny Carson, Dan Rather, Frank White, Rick Tumlinson, Peter Diamandis
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In his paper, Janhunen described the settlement as being a “megasatellite” with thousands of cylindrical spacecrafts that would all be inside of a huge disk-shaped frame. Each of the cylindrical spacecrafts would hold as many as 57,000 people who would be able to survive because of an artificial atmosphere and Earth-like gravity caused by its rotation’s centrifugal force. The cylindrical habitats, which would measure approximately 6.2 miles in length with a 0.6 mile radius, would complete a full rotation every 66 seconds in order to maintain the Earth-like gravity.