L5 News cover, June 1978
Cover art courtesy of NASA Johnson Space Center illustrates space manufacturing scenario. Lower left, a mass driver reaction engine is propelling an asteroid into Earth orbit. Lower right, a mining and processing operation has been set in operation on a second asteroid. Upper left, a solar power satellite is under construction, utilizing resources from the nearby asteroid. Upper right, a Bernal shpere space colony houses 10,000 people, many of whom are working as asteroid miners and SPS construction workers.
L5 News, January 1978
24 pages, 1.0 MB PDF
Editor: Carolyn Henson
- Deep Sea Mining: A Model for Extraterrestrial Resource Mining? by H.K. Henson
- Astronaut Corps – Or Space Soldiers? by Robin Snelson
- Preliminary Earthport Design
- Bibliography Update
L5 News, February 1978
20 pages, 1.7 MB PDF
Editor: Carolyn Henson
- SPS in Congress
- OTRAG: Bold Pioneer Faces Hostile World
- Space Industrialization: Whence Cometh Confusion? by Gordon Woodcock
- SPS: Near Future Energy Source?
- Review: Space Colonies, edited by Stewart Brand
- Industrialization of Space Conference papers
L5 News, March 1978
20 pages, 1.4 MB PDF
Editor: Carolyn Henson
- NASA Budget
- Senate Symposium on Future of Space Applications
- Congressional Testimony of Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill
- Salyut 6
- The Cosmos-929 Enigma, by James Oberg
- More on Military Shuttle Pilots
L5 News, April 1978
20 pages, 1.1 MB PDF
Editor: Carolyn Henson
- Sunsat Energy Council Formed
- Jimmy C. Will Increase NASA’s Budget If Good Friend Jerry B. Will Take Permanent Space Walk
- Convair to Design System For Space Orbit Assembly
- Be Your Own Astronaut (if Bob Truax gets his way)
- Space Mines, Space Law, and the Third World, by Eric Drexler
- Salyut 6 Facts & Figures, by James Oberg
- OTRAG News
- The High Frontier in paperback
L5 News, May 1978
20 pages, 1.l MB PDF
Editor: Carolyn Henson
- SPS Hearings: Momentum Lost?, by Ken McCormick
- Melcher Introduces Senate Solar Power Satellite Bill
- Microwave False Alarm
- SPS – “A Gross Perversion of Our Solar Energy Priorities” (Rep. Ottinger)
- HR 10601: Focus of Controversy
- Microwaves: SPS Hazard, by Eric Drexler
- Lunar Resources Study Underway
- Soviet Spacecraft Mysteries Intensify, by James Oberg
- Environmental Implications of SPS, by Peter Glaser
- Earthport Launch Site Proposal Draws International Response
L5 News, June 1978
20 pages, 876 KB PDF
Editor: Carolyn Henson
- Boland’s Committee Cuts NASA Appropriation
- DOE, NASA’s Plans for SPS
- Space Industrialization Study Indicates Space Investments Yield High Returns
- Intrinsically Valuable Materials in Space, by Stewart Nozette
- Some Rudiments of Economics for Non-Economists, by Gordon Woodcock
- Response to “Space Mines”
- Domicile and Industry in Outer Space (Precis and Epilogue), by J. Henry Glazer
- L-5 Society Bylaw and Board Election
L5 News, July 1978
20 pages, 7 MB PDF
Editor: Eric Drexler
- The New Space Program: Conflict, Cooperation, and Common Interest, by Eric Drexler
- Suppose Isabella Had Said “No”? by Robert G. Nichols
- A Social Psychologist Looks at the Space Program, by Charles J. Divine
- Boeing, ADL Outline SPS Development Plans, by Eric Drexler
- Offshore Satellite Solar Power Receiver Studied, by Tom Brosz
- Laser Propulsion to Geosynchronous Orbit, by Eric Drexler
- Bibliography Update
L5 News, August 1978
16 pages, 5 MB PDF
Editor: Carolyn Henson
- Skyhook!, by Hans Moravec
- OTRAG: Progress in the Face of Adversity, by Carolyn Henson
- Space Settlements Conference at JPL, by Taylor Dark III
- Space Processing: the “STAMPS” of Disapproval, by Leonard David
L5 News, September 1978
20 pages, 5.5 MB PDF
Editor: Carolyn Henson
- SPS Hearings (Part I), by Ken McCormick
- Energy and Alternative Futures, by Gordon R. Woodcock
- L5 Society Slide Show
L5 News, October 1978
20 pages, 6.6 MB PDF
Editor: Carolyn Henson
- NASA-Supported Study at University of Arizona Selects Crops for Closed Habitats in Space
- L-5 Symposium at World Science Fiction Convention
- The Prisoner and Space, by Lawrence Brozik
- SPS Hearings (Part II), by Ken McCormick
- Facts and Fallacies of Space Warfare, by James Oberg
- AAS Conference: “The Future United States Space Program”
L5 News, November 1978
20 pages, 6.2 MB PDF
Editor: Carolyn Henson
- Russia’s “Guest Cosmonaut” Program, by James Oberg
- What Are Solar Power Satellites? by Carolyn Henson
- Solar Power Satellites: Boon or Boondoggle, by Mark Gibson
- The Solar Power Satellite in the Time of Timidity, by Arthur Kantrowitz
L5 News, December 1978
20 pages, 6.9 MB PDF
Editor: Jennifer L. Atkins
- Name of Newly-Discovered Asteroid Honors Camp David Peace Conference
- International Astronautical Federation Conference, by Frederick H. Osborn, Jr.
- Mining the Moon, by William N. Agosto
- Carter Sets Space Policy, by Leonard David
- Congress Views Space, by Paul J. Werbos
