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DaedalusaL4 Guide - Detailed design study for
a 10,000 person space settlement in Earth orbit, using current
technology. 2000 Grand Prize Winner in Space Settlement Design Contest.
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Denie's Off World Training -
Bodybuilding, weight training, and related matters, with this section
covering the problems and need for resistance machine activities in
zero-g.
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Foundation Future 25 - Emerging
platform for long-term thinking, acting and growth. Supporting space
colonization and the development of life and humanity on earth earth,
the planets and in the universe.
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Galleria 2433 - Ideas for
colonizing the moon, Mars, the asteroid belt and the galaxy.
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Gliese 581 c - Wikipedia entry for
newly-discovered, extra-solar, "habitable" planet, 20 light-years away.
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Inter PlaNetary Internet -
Internet Society special interest group focused on deep space, long
time-lag communications.
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International Space Settlement Design Competition
- An annual event in which teams of high school students prepare designs
for cities in space.
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Interstellar Missions - News of breakthroughs
in propulsion physics and the search for extra-solar planets that will
enable missions beyond the solar system.
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Island One Society - Propulsion
systems, business ideas, archives of space meetings and journals, and
political advocacy for the space frontier.
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Laying the Foundation for Space Solar Power: (2001)
- National Research Council study of NASA's late 1990's space solar
power efforts.
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Living on
Green Islands in Space - Information about
O'Neill-type orbiting habitats and why we may want to built them.
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Moon News - Links to news items
about the moon.
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NASA
Ames - Space Settlement Contests - Annual
design contest for school-age kids, grades 6-12. Links to winning
designs.
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National
Space Society Roadmap for the Settlement of Space
- List of Milestones and Barriers to Space Settlement
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Notable Nearby
Stars - Information about nearby star systems
out to 65 light years.
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Office of
Space Commercialization - US Government office
- studies on market for space tourism, satellite industry, and other
aspects of space development.
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Oregon L5 Society - Oregon
chapter of the National Space Society; many studies and reports on in-situ
resource utilization and related aspects of space development.
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Pioneer Organisms Nominated for Terraforming
- Introducing life forms into a barren environment is called ecopoiesis.
This article suggests several microbes suitable for pioneering
introduction to Mars and Venus.
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The
SCTC Project - Space Colonization Training and
Education Center project to design, construct, and place in operation a
simulated space station and remote research base for the training of
future space colonists.
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Self Contained Off-world Residential Environment
- Full design from the grand prize winner in the 1997 NASA-Ames Space
Settlement Design Contest.
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Space Colonies - Full text of
the 1977 CoEvolution book _Space Colonies_, which is now out of print.
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Space Colony Artwork 1970s - A
collection of images from early NASA work on large-scale space habitats.
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Space Elevator - Information from Wikipedia on
this proposed structure designed to transport material from Earth's
surface into space.
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Space Elevator
Reference - Scientific, engineering, economic
and policy challenges inherent in constructing the solar systems first
space elevator.
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The Space Flag - A flag
designed to be flown by supporters of space colonization.
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The Space Frontier
Foundation - Organization composed of space
activists, scientists and individuals from all backgrounds and nations.
It aims to open the space frontier to human settlement as rapidly as
possible. Includes a blog and details of conferences.
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Space Settlement - NASA
research office offering introduction to the subject with studies,
on-line books, links and a student contest.
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Space Settlement
- Discusses the space settlement proposals of Gerard K. O'Neill, as
popularized in his book "The High Frontier". Features pictures and a
FAQ.
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Space Settlement - Colonizing the Cosmos
- Al Globus' studies, reviews, and links on the subject of O'Neill-style
space settlements.
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Space Settlement
- National Space Society - Collection of
essays, articles, studies, and other reference materials on all aspects
of colonizing and settling space.
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Space Settlement
Initiative - A proposal to grant ownership of
land on the moon and Mars to companies that establish settlements and
agree to sell passage to anyone willing to pay a fair price.
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The
Space Settlement Institute - A non-profit
association founded to help promote space colonization; emphasis on
property rights law.
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The Space Settlers' Society -
contacts and articles on European space advocacy, ramjets, and space
tourism.
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Space Solar
Power Monitor - News, discussion, links to
latest information on SSP.
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Space Solar Power
Workshop - Discussion of the energy path for
space development.
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Space Studies Institute - The
organization founded by Gerard O'Neill, with detailed information about
his space settlement proposals.
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SpaceArchitect.org - AIAA subcommittee on
aerospace architecture in space and on Earth.
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SpaceElevatorWiki - Intended to
be a repository of information and a baseline for research on the space
elevator.