Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy (1857-1935) was a bit of a curmudgeon and crackpot but he was prescient. Besides coming up with the mathematics that made it possible to develop viable rocket propulsion (in 1903!), he also wrote a bunch of stuff on pretty much every aspect of space travel. In June 1933, he produced an “Album of Space Voyages”—basically a bunch of hand-drawn sketches predicting what might happen during spaceflights. This page from the album shows how things might seem in weightlessness, presumably inside a space station. Pretty good for a half-deaf village school teacher.
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