Design a Space Station With Tinkercad!

if you're dreaming up to be an astronaut, you've probably thinking about eating pizza in a space station or whatnot, but before you become an actual spaceman and blast off to the orbit, let's do a quick lesson about space stations by building your own one with tinkercad.

just your friendly computer and a tinkercad account.

before we actually begin, let's look at some space station photos to see what a space station mostly needs. i made a chart of things we should make one by one.

1. main compartments
2. solar pannels
3. crew compartments
4. thrusters
5. extra docking ports
6. re-entry capsule
7. transport shuttles
8. windows

first, let's build the main compartments of the station using cylinders, tubes and cubes. this will be the main core of our ship.

now that the main compartments are finished, let's add some solar pannels to give the station more energy. we'll install more later.

we need more space for crews to eat, sleep, and do experiments, let's build the crew comparrtments with more cylinders, cubes, etc. we'll add more solar pannels now that we need more power.

let's add some thrusters to keep our ship from re-entering the atmosphere.

we need more room for supplie ships to dock, so let's make some extra docking ports.

in case of emergencies, let's add a re-entry capsule so our crewmates can safely return.

with the crew inside, supplies would quickly drop. let's send some transport shuttles to keep up the supplies and let crewmates come and go.

now that our space station is almost finished, let's add some windows so crews can see outside.

our station is finished!