Image courtesy of NASA cislunar development: What to build-and why center for space policy and strategy. NASA eyeing inflatable space lodges for moon, Mars and beyond. O’NEILL This Princeton University physics professor changed the face of space exploration during the 1970s and 80s with his plans for building space colonies in free space in Earth orbit. Requiem for Kepler? NASA’s pioneering planet-finder (pictures). Bigelow aerospace: Inflatable modules for ISS. Space Resources and Space Settlements : Technical Papers Derived from the 1977 Summer Study at NASA.

Blow it up: Inflatable space station habitat shows promise in early tests. Immigrant entrepreneurship German Historical Institute. ULA laying the foundations for an Econosphere in CisLunar space. They found that orbit is a good place for an expanding, technological civilization. 'Sobre este título' puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.Bergin, C. In the 1970s Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill and others showed that orbital space colonies were physically possible, attractive places to live, and may make economic sense. His ideas spread through the space-enthusiast. O'Neill of Princeton University, made essential contributions by providing information based on his notes and calculations from six years of prior work on space colonization and by carefully reviewing the technical aspects of the study. O'Neill popularized the idea of not just settling space, but of doing so in free space rather than on the surface of other planets or moons. It also includes considerable background material. Positioned in stable orbits between Earth and the Moon, these facilities could serve as manufacturing centers and solar power stations while supplying housing for the planet’s burgeoning population. Because the idea of colonizing space has awakened strong public interest, the report is written to be understood by the educated public and specialists in other fields. O’Neill viewed space colonies as a means of avoiding the quasi-totalitarian regulations that the Club of Rome deemed necessary to avoid disaster. This report, like the design itself, is intended to be as technologically complete and sound as it could be made in ten weeks, but it is also meant for a readership beyond that of the aerospace community.

The goal of the summer study was to design a system for the colonization of space. This group worked for ten weeks to construct a convincing picture of how people might permanently sustain life in space on a large scale. The project brought together nineteen professors of engineering, physical science, social science, and architecture, and two co-directors.

This report grew out of a 10-week program in engineering systems design held at Stanford University and the Ames Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration during the summer of 1975.

Space Settlements by Gerard K. O'Neill