In Fiction
John Varley's Gaea trilogy is about a Stanford torus in orbit around Saturn. There have been many other wheel-shaped space habitats in science fiction, such as Larry Niven's Ringworld or the Earth-orbiting Space Station V invented by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick and depicted in Kubrick's 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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