article_snippet.sent: A Washington, DC-based company called United Space Structures wants to create a new space station.
article_snippet.sent: A Washington, DC-based company called United Space Structures giant cylinder (shown, with the ISS and Space Shuttles illustrated) could apparently replace the ISS.
article_snippet.sent: The ‘space mushroom’ was designed by Bill Kemp and Ted Maziejka from United Space Structures (USS), based in Washington, DC.
article_snippet.sent: To build the station, the team says the team have ‘patents pending’ for six robotic systems that can manufacture and construct a variety of structures in space.
article_snippet.sent: While exact details aren’t known at the moment, another company - Tethers Unlimited -  has demonstrated how structures could be built in space with structures SpiderFab proposal, a system of robo-spiders that would build parts of spacecraft in orbit, although Mr Kemp told MailOnline that the USS method would be 'different'.
article_snippet.sent: To build A rotating station, something like SpiderFab (left) could be used, a proposed system of robo-spiders than can construct solar panels, trusses and other parts of spacecraft in orbit.
highlights_snippet.sent: Washington, DC company United Space Structures wants to create a new space station .
  