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In the mid 1970's Gerard O'Neill put together a detailed plan for space settlement in orbiting colonies (or colonies at the Lagrange points), published in his popular book The High Frontier. These rotating cylindrical colonies, which provided an Earth-like interior to tens of thousands of colonists, became known as "O'Neill Cylinders".