Space station

Claim 1

A SPACE STATION FOR PROJECTION INTO SPACE IN A COLLAPSED CONDITION COMPRISING ELONGATED TUBULAR SECTIONS ARRANGED IN TWO SERIES; EACH SERIES COMPRISING THREE INTERCONNECTED TUBULAR SECTIONS ARRANGED LONGITUDINALLY OF EACH OTHER AND INCLUDING OUTER TUBULAR SECTIONS, AT THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE SERIES AND A ROTATABLE CENTER TUBULAR SECTION BETWEEN THE OUTER TUBULAR SECTIONS, SAID CENTER TUBULAR SECTIONS HAVING SYMMETRICAL INCLINED END FACES ANGLED WITH RESPECT TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE SERIES IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS, SAID OUTER TUBULAR SECTIONS OF THE SERIES HAVING SYMMETRICAL INCLINED END FACES ANGLED WITH RESPECT TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE SERIES IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS, AND THE END FACES OF SAID CENTER TUBULAR SECTION BEING COMPLEMENTARY TO THE END FACES OF THE ADJOINING OUTER TUBULAR SECTIONS OPPOSED THERETO AND IN RELATIVELY ROTATABLE MATING RELATIONSHIP THEREWITH; PIVOTABLE MEANS JOINING THE CORRESPONDING OUTER TUBULAR SECTIONS OF THE TWO SERIES TO CONNECT THE TWO SERIES IN SIDE-BY-SIDE RELATIONSHIP TO DEFINE THE COLLAPSED CONDITION OF THE SPACE STATION, AND DRIVE MEANS TO IMPART ROTATION TO SAID CENTER TUBULAR SECTIONS OF THE TWO SERIES FOR REPOSITIONING SAID TUBULAR SECTIONS FROM THE COLLAPSED CONDITION OF THE SPACE STATION INTO A HEXAGONAL RIM DEFINING THE OPERATIVE CONDITION OF THE SPACE STATION.