Book Review: A Future Spacefaring Society
We are at the cusp of building an orbital industrial infrastructure and establishing human settlements in space. This book investigates what it takes to do that.
Space Settlement
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I’ve recently finished a paper on space settlement called “Paths to Space Settlement.” Here’s the abstract: A number of firms are developing commercial sub-orbital launch...
The Inevitability of Space Settlement by Mark Hopkins It is only a matter of time before the large scale move into space begins. It is...
NASA is again considering the feasibility of manned missions to the asteroids. However, this idea is not without precedent. Scientists began seriously considering asteroids as...
I want to thank everyone who particapated in Space Settlement Blog Day. It was very successful. There were several very interesting essays written for the...
[For Space Settlement Blog Day, July 20, 2009] Can we afford to settle space? A concomitant question is “Can we afford NOT to settle space?”...
We have 34 blogs participating. This is a great success. What a great way to honor the Apollo 11 landing. Please let us know which...
Uranium Found on the Moon Uranium exists on the moon, according to new data from a Japanese spacecraft. The findings are the first conclusive evidence...
Anita Gale’s Husband of 23 years, Dick Edwards, passed away shortly after the ISDC. Anita Gale and Dick Edwards jointly ran the AIAA International Space...
Blog for and about space settlement on July 20th July 20th 2009 is the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. July 20th is...
The winners of the grand prize in the 2009 NASA/NSS Space Settlement Design Contest have been nicely written up in the press. Eric Yam, a...
NASA may abandon plans for moon base NASA will probably not build an outpost on the moon as originally planned, the agency’s acting administrator, Chris...
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