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Life in Space
Section C: Settlement, Habitats, Space Industry, etc

This section provides resources dealing with how large numbers of humans can live and work in space.

Space Colonies:

Humanity in Space: Settlement, Habitats, etc.

Local resources:
- Space settlement related postings in Space-for-All Weblog
- Space Controversies
  - Space Settlement
  - Humans vs the Borg - links about the debate on human vs unmanned exploration of space in the section.
- Space Law - HobbySpace
- Space Colony Art
- A Space Roadmap: Mine the Sky, Defend the Earth, Settle the Universe by Lee Valentine - Mar.24.03
Space Settlement - National Space Society - large collection of space settlement related resources
Space Future - huge amount of material on all aspects of living in space.
- Habitats
- Power
NASA Exploration Systems
- NASA - Exploration and Discovery
NASA - Space Settlement - lots of links to settlement related resources.
ESA - Aurora Exploration Programme - program that supports research into various long range space exploration and development concepts
Affordable Space Flight
Anansi Spaceworks
- Space Homestead Corner
Apollo Society * Delphi Project
Colony Design - resources about building space colonies.
Colonize the Cosmos! - Al Globus
First Millennial Foundation
Island One Society
Islands in Space - music for space colonists
Lagrange Points:
- Lagrange Points - explanation at Univ. Montana MAP project.
- Lagrange Points for Earth-Moon System
- Lagrange Points at WMAP Observatory
- Earth-Moon L1 Considerations - Transterrestrial Musings - Dec.5.06
- A sort of L-1 primer - Selenian Boondocks - Feb.17.06
- Interplanetary Superhighway Makes Space Travel Simpler - JPL PR - July.17.02
- 'Invisible Planets' Gain Favor As Real Estate in Space -Space.com - Jan.19.00
Living Aloft: Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight
National Space Biomedical Research Institute - NSBRI
Manned Mission to Mars
Orbital Habitat
Orbital Space Settlement - Al Globus
NASA - Orbital Space Settlements
PERMANENT: Asteroids, Space Development - lots of info
- PERMANENT - the Book
- The PERMANENT Book by Mark Prado - Out of the Cradle - Jan.12.06
Plus Ultra Technologies, Inc. - Space Technology & Exploration
- Large Structures in Space
Prometheus Downport Project - Jonathan Goff's concepts for developing a lunar city.
RedColony.com - extensive site devoted to colonization of Mars
Seastead.org - this project to establish ocean based independent states may have implications for space settlements.
Space Age Associates
Space Settlement - Mike Combs - lots of links and info on space colonization
- The Space Settlement FAQ
- Orbital Space Colonies: Fundamentals by Al Globus - excerpts from book
Space Colonies by Geoffrey Wood
- Includes a discussion about artificial gravity from rotation.
- mirror site at Starships, Space Colonies and the like
1000 Planets Inc.
Space Studies Institute - Founded by Gerard O'Neill
- SSI Conference Report Contents - since 1975
Space 2002 & Robotics 2002 - proceedings from the "The 8th International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Business in Space" combined with "The 5th International Conference and Exposition on Robotics for Challenging Situations and Environments" that took place March 17-21, 2002.
Space Settlement Initiative - Alan Wasser
- The Space Settlement Institute - Finding Ways to Make Space Settlement Happen in Our Lifetimes
OPS-Alaska - Expanding the Human Ecology
8th Continent project
- Sponsored by the Center for Space Resources at the Colorado School of Mines
- "comprehensive effort to integrate space into the global economy"
Gerard O'Neill, Space Habitats, L5 Society:
- L5 News
- Stanford Torus Space Colony - Images
- Bernal Sphere Space Colo_dny - Images
- O'Neill Cylinder Space Colony - Images
- Brief history of the L5 Society
- Space Colonies: A CoEvolution Book - reprint at NASA
- O'Neill cylinder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Space Settlements: A Design Study - NASA funded in 1975
- The Colonization of Space - Gerard K. O'Neill - Physics Today article - Sept.1974
- Gerard O'Neill's book - The High Frontier
  - The High Frontier at the Space Studies Institute
  - The High Frontier by Gerard K. O'Neill - Space Frontier Foundation
  - Slashdot review - The High Frontier
Colonies in Space - 1977 - complete online version of the book by T. A. Heppenheimer - NSS
Essays:
- Independent space colonization: questions and implications - The Space Review - Jan.15.07
- All Colonization Should Be Private - Ludwig von Mises Institute - Dec.19.06 by Curran R. Kemp
- Space Settlement: The Call of the High Frontier- SPACE.com - Mar.20.06
- We the People of Mars... - Glenn Reynolds/TCS - June.12.02
- Space and Human Survival by Sylvia Engdahl
- Current Space Development as a Manifestation of Historic Frontier Processes by Dale M. Gray
- Entering Space Profitably - Alex Terrell
Space to safeguard civilization:
- Spaceflight or Extinction
  - Sagan’s rationale for human spaceflight - The Space Review - Nov.8.04
- The Lifeboat Foundation
Articles
- SPACE.com -- Orbital Outposts: A Better Bet than a Moonbase?
- Engineering Considerations For Space-Based Human Habitats: A look at some of the technical and engineering aspects of permanent manned space colonies - by Sir Charles W. Shults III - Xenotech Research
- Move Into Space, but Where? - Wired - Sept.25.06
- Scientists work to colonize space: Hurdles loom before Hawking's goal realized; Needs include oxygen, water, food at outpost - TheStar.com - June.19.06
- En Route to Mars, The Moon: Why colonize the Moon before going to Mars? NASA scientists give their reasons. - Science@NASA - Mar.18.05
- Colonize the Moon before Mars by Sam Dinkin - The Space Review - Sept.7.04
- NASA Chooses Purdue to Study Colonies on Mars and Moon - Aug.15.02
- NASA, Purdue Team on Space Colony Project - NewsFactor - Mar.15.02
- The Future of Human Spaceflight: We Go 'Round In Circles - Space.com - Feb.19.02
- Humans will 'sail to the stars' - BBC - Feb.15.02
- Distant space travel better conducted as family affair - Spaceflight Now - Feb.17.02
- The Moon Or Mars: Which Shall It Be? - Space.com - Jan.28.02
- Astronomers push for observatory on the moon - CNN.com - Jan.5.02
- Survival of the Elitist: Bioterrorism May Spur Space Colonies - Space.com - Oct.30.01
- Colonise space or die, says Hawking - BBC - Oct.16.01
- The Top 3 Reasons to Colonize Space -Space.com - Oct.8.01
- Taming a New Frontier: Settlers Wanted - Space.com - July.30.01
- Top Ten Reasons to Inhabit Outer Space - Space.com - July.23.00
Links
- Geoffrey Woods - links
- Space Colonization sites - Sylvia Engdahl
- Space Colonization Links by Anders Sandberg
- Telson Spur - Space Frontier link list

Space Resources:

Lunar Resources - Moon Section
Space Resources Course Notes - Univ. of Wisconsin
Univ. Arizona/NASA Space Engineering Research Center for Utilization of Local Planetary Resources
Lunar He3
- Race to the Moon for Nuclear Fuel - Wired - Dec.15.06
- Moon a great power source - smh.com.au - July.11.02
- Schmitt speech on creation of lunar He3 industry
- An energy source that's out of this world - Asia Times - Nov.15.03
- Researchers and space enthusiasts see helium-3 as the perfect fuel source-Space.com-June.30.00.
- University of Wisconsin Fusion Technology Institute
  - He-3 Gallery of Media Coverage
  - A fascinating hour with Gerald Kulcinsk - The Space Review - Jan.16.06 - Eric Hedman profiles University of Wisconsin professor Gerald Kulcinski, a leading proponent of Helium-3 fusion.
  - New Opportunities for Fusion in the 21st Century - Advanced Fuels; G.L. Kulcinski and J.F. Santarius (pdf file) -Univ. Wisconsin - discussion of d-He3 propulsion, IEC
  - The Development of Lunar 3He Resources: Near-Term Applications and Long-Term Prospects; G.L. Kulcinski, et al - July.2000 (pdf)
Lunar Platinum
- Lunar platinum and alcohol fuel cells - The Space Review - Feb.13.06
Lunar Oxygen
Space Mining
- "How Asteroid Mining Will Work" - Howstuffworks
- The Moon Miner - lots of Moon mining related info
- The Future of Space Mining by Michael Booth - American Univ. - Dec.1995
- Space, Trade and Garbage, by James Bonnell and Damon C. Morris - Case Study
- PERMANENT - Asteroids Near Earth - Index
- Galactic Mining Industries
  - Telepossession of Extraterrestrial Resources and Leveraged Financing of Outer Space Projects - gaining title to space property via robotic prospectors
- Chip Design Islands of ice - IEE Spectrum - Aug.01
- Mining Asteroids: Melting trapped ice could turn a profit for private companies, with metal processing not far behind - IEEE Spectrum - Aug.01
- Space Mining - School of Mining
  - Colorado School of Mines Space Resources Roundtable
  - Abstracts and papers from the annual conferences it has held since 1999
- Delta-V from LEO to Asteroids, Moon, etc
- Enabling Lunar Exploration through Early Resource Utilization by B. Kent Joosten, Lisa A. Guerra - NASA - 1993
- NEAP/SpaceDev - private asteroid exploration/mining project:
  - SpaceDev
  - CNN - Space entrepreneur may inspire 'rocket boys' for a new millennium - March 1, 1999
Articles:

ISRU - In Situ Resource Utilization

Images of OGS Vol. 3
ISRU Research Lab, Univ. Washington
Mars and Lunar Exploration - Donald Rapp - lots of ISRU papers and studies
- The problems with lunar ISRU - The Space Review - Sept.5.06
In-Situ Propellant Production on Mars: The First Flight Demonstration
Bringing Mars into the Iron Age
NAIC Studies
Surface Systems - A Crewed Mission to Mars - NASA
Wickman Spacecraft & Propulsion Company
- In-Situ Martian Propulsion - Carbon Dioxide/Magnesium Powder Rocket Engines
- Lunar Soil Propellant
Moon Regolith Oxygen Extraction - Centennial Challenge competition
Lunar/Mars Construction:
Solar cells and other power systems built with lunar materials:

Lunar colony to run on moon dust and robots - New Scientist - Jan.23.05

Articles:

Asteroid: Exploration, Prospecting and Development

Space Industry: Microgravity, High-Vacuum, etc.

Space Gardening/Farming/Recyling

Space Solar Power

Interplanetary Communications Infrastructure