Reference Guide to the International Space Station

• Sun Power: The Global Solution for the Coming Energy Crisis - complete online book by Ralph Nansen
• Space-Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security. Report to the National Security Space Office, October 2007
• Space Power - online book by G. Harry Stine.
• Satellite Power System Concept Development and Evaluation Program - a large set of the extensive Department of Energy/NASA studies from 1978 to 1981
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• Colonies in Space - complete online book by T. A. Heppenheimer
• Space Settlements - A Design Study (NASA Special Publication 413)
• Space Resources and Space Settlements (NASA Special Publication 428)
• Resources of Near-Earth Space - University of Arizona Press
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• Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century
• The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century
• Resources of Near-Earth Space, Part II: The Moon
• Lunar Resources Utilization for Space Construction
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• Resources of Near-Earth Space, Part IV: Mars
• NASA Mars Reference Mission (Mars "Semi-Direct") [PDF 2.3 MB]
• "Mars Direct" articles from Ad Astra
• Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning, 1950-2000 [PDF 2.4 MB]
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• Stephen Hawking on "Why We Should Go Into Space" - 25 minute video and transcript
• NASA's Exploration Systems Architecture Study (2005)
• Mars Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Space Exploration Initiative (2007)
• The Space Shuttle Decision, by T. A. Heppenheimer (1999)
• Pioneering the Space Frontier - Report of the National Commission on Space (1986)
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• Space Elevators - An Advanced Earth-Space Infrastructure for the New Millennium, 2000
• The Space Elevator by Bradley C. Edwards (NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Study Phase 1 Final Report), 2000
• The Space Elevator NIAC Phase 2 Final Report, 2003
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