A New Way of Creating Space

Our space stations are currently quite volume limited, and various ways around this have been proposed. But what if one has been staring us in the face for centuries?

I speak a lot here about the mass constrain of space settlement, but there is another constraint in play - that of volume. We want to make large spaces for people to live in, and at present all living spaces have to be launched from Earth and are thus constrained to the size of the rocket fairing they fly in. This has made human outposts in space somewh…