Space Settlement Library

The NSS Space Settlement Library contains over 30,000 pages on site,
including material for both the general reader and the researcher,
and including a number of hard-to-find reference works.

Online Space Settlement Books
	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) Space Colonies - CoEvolution Quarterly Book ... MORE

Space Manufacturing Library
	Space Manufacturing (Princeton Conference Abstracts) Extraterrestrial Processing and Manufacturing of Large Space Systems Lunar Resources Utilization for Space Construction

Space Resources Library
	Resources of Near-Earth Space, University of Arizona Press, 978 pages Space Resources, NASA SP-509 (5 Volumes) Lunar Resources Utilization for Space Construction Extraterrestrial Materials Processing and Construction Nonterrestrial Utilization of Materials: Automated Space Manufacturing Facility ... MORE

Space Colonization Conference Abstracts
	American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings on Space Colonization [Abstracts]

Lunar Bases and Settlement Library
	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 ... MORE

Space Solar Power Library

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
... MORE

L5 News Archive
	L5 News Archive What is L5? Brief History of the L5 Society L5 Scenario in a Nutshell Complete L5 News for 1975 - 1976 - 1977 - 1978 - 1979 L5 News articles from the 1980s

Audio Library
	Mark Hopkins - 90-minute radio interview about space settlement on The Space Show with the Senior Vice President of the National Space Society.

Many of the documents are in PDF format
and to read them you will need the free Acrobat Reader program.
To download PDF files, right click on the PDF link
and choose "Save Target As" or "Save Link As".

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