> All those stories of hollowing out an asteroid and turning it into a habitat or generation ship for 50,000 people aren’t looking so prescient. If it's as loo

> All those stories of hollowing out an asteroid and turning it into a habitat or generation ship for 50,000 people aren’t looking so prescient. If it's as loose as that then you could just put an inner steel "pressure" hull (the actual pressure from the outside would be negligible but it'd have to be able handle a human compatible air pressure) inside the asteroid and use the asteroid material as a radiation shield instead I guess. Would work for a base but not for a ship with any appreciable thrust would shed material.