I am happy to find a blog dedicated to promoting space exploration and colonisation, an opportunity to exchange ideas that, according to the title of your post, I deduce that begins by imagining what a space station should be like to help us humans expand through space.

I find that the ideas that are exposed in the genre of science fiction are an extraordinary mental exercise of Humanity. It is a genre that has two legs, one that swings in the imagination: dreams, visions, ideas, predictions. The other is anchored in reality: in data, science and technology. A mixture that is sometimes very fanciful and other times poses real hypotheses.

It is fascinating to see how many ideas of science fiction have become reality right in front of our eyes, like the trip to the Moon of Verne or the videoconferences of The Jetsons. I do not know if sometimes the dreams expressed by these writers have shaped the course of history by having found executors for those ideas, or if they have simply been predictions, glimpses of the future. Maybe it has been a bit of both.

I have liked many works of science fiction: "Contact", "Odyssey 2001", "Deep Impact", "Gattaca", "I, Robot" (Asimov's novel, not the bad movie of Will Smith), Robotech .. .
But without a doubt, my favorite so far is the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.
A very extensive work for which I have a deep admiration due to the ability of the author to create such a credible world, from its deep and diverse characters, through the interactions between them to the new world they discover and transform. On the one hand, the work is full of authentic descriptions of the Planet Mars (I read it often consulting Google Mars), evaluating it in the light of our Earth to determine what it needs to turn it into a home; and on the other, with a multitude of proposals, with their advantages and disadvantages for terraforming it. It is a work that left me convinced that the colonisation of other celestial bodies is possible and a necessity.

Let's create a new space station!