{"id":235953,"date":"2026-04-26T14:02:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/gerard-k-oneill-was-not-honored-as-deserved-so-far-but-maybe-its-not-too-late"},"modified":"2026-04-26T14:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:02:34","slug":"gerard-k-oneill-was-not-honored-as-deserved-so-far-but-maybe-its-not-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/gerard-k-oneill-was-not-honored-as-deserved-so-far-but-maybe-its-not-too-late","title":{"rendered":"Gerard k. O\u2019neill Was Not Honored as Deserved, so Far\u2026 But Maybe It\u2019s Not Too Late!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TGtbHn76HwU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While doing research during the works of the SRI 4<sup>th<\/sup> World Congress, I am trying to deepen my knowledge of the immense work done by Gerard K. O\u2019Neill and his Space Studies Institute (SSI) during the second half of the past century.<\/p>\n<p>Gerry took the work where Tsiolkovsky, Oberth, von Braun, and others had left it, on the great theme of rotating habitats in free space. And more, the SSI, founded by him, has developed an incredible amount of very high-profile studies about space manufacturing [1], covering many aspects of living in free-space habitats. Not only scientific and technical issues. According to the O\u2019Neill teachings\u2014as his main references, like Krafft Ehricke and others, had done\u2014human requirements, attention to life and health protection, human rights, and social needs informed all of the developed studies and conceptual design.<\/p>\n<p>Great outreachers like Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke, and Stanley Kubrick were ready to follow O\u2019Neill and promote his concepts in their artworks and in their interviews to TV and media magazines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing research during the works of the SRI 4th World Congress, I am trying to deepen my knowledge of the immense work done by Gerard K. O\u2019Neill and his Space Studies Institute (SSI) during the second half of the past century. Gerry took the work where Tsiolkovsky, Oberth, von Braun, and others had left [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15,1495,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-habitats","category-health","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}