NSS Space Settlement Nexus home page

Space Settlement Library

• Online Space Settlement Books
• Colonies in Space, by T. A. Heppenheimer
• Toward Distant Suns, by T. A. Heppenheimer
• American Institute of Physics Conferences on Space Colonization [Abstracts]
• Space Resources Library
• Lunar Bases and Settlement Library
• Space Solar Power Library
• L5 News archive

Audio-Video Library

• NASA Video: Space Colonization (1976, 5 minutes)
• Mark Hopkins - The Space Show radio interview on space colonization (2007, 90 min.)

NSS Space Settlement Journal

NASA Space Settlement Mirror Site and Sitemap

Contests

• NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Design Contest (Grades 6-12)
• Winning Entry for 2006
• International Student Space Settlement Design Contest (Grades 9-12)
• NSS Space Settlement Calendar Art Contest - Gallery of Submitted Art

Orbital Settlements

• Torus Designs
• Bernal Sphere
• O'Neill Cylinder
• Lewis One
• Kalpana One [PDF file]

Moon - Lunar Bases and Settlements

• Lunar Bases and Settlements Library
• Is a Domed Lunar City Possible?
• Viral Architecture for Lunar Settlements
• Return to the Moon studies:
  • 1992: First Lunar Outpost (FLO)
  • 1993: LUNOX
  • 1993: Early Lunar Access (ELA)
  • 1994: LOX-Augmented Nuclear Thermal Rocket (LANTR) & LUNOX
  • 1996: Human Lunar Return (HLR)
  • 2005: Constellation
• Recommended Reading
• Links

Mars - Settling Mars

• The Promise of Mars, by Robert Zubrin
• The Case for Colonizing Mars, by Robert Zubrin
• The Significance of the Martian Frontier, by Robert Zubrin
• Mars Library

Asteroids

• Article: Asteroid Mining - Key to the Space Economy
• Paper: Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study (PDF 2012)
• Paper: The Technical and Economic Feasibility of Mining the Near-Earth Asteroids

Space Solar Power

• Space Solar Power Library

L5 News

• What is L5?
• Brief History of the L5 Society
• L5 Scenario in a Nutshell
• L5 News contents and back issues - 1975
• L5 News contents and back issues - 1976
• L5 News contents and back issues - 1977
• L5 News contents and back issues - 1978
• L5 News contents and back issues - 1979
• L5 News articles from the 1980s

NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement

• Development of the NSS Roadmap
• Overview of the NSS Roadmap
• Milestones on the NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement
• Barriers to Space Settlement
  • Technological Barriers
  • Political Barriers
  • Economic Barriers
  • Social Barriers

Space Settlement Links

NSS Space Settlement Advocacy Committee