Ad Astra Volume 26 Number 1 Spring 2014

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Ad Astra 2014 Spring (Volume 26 Number 1)

Cover image: Grand Prize Winner of the 2013 NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement International Student Art Contest: “Asteroid Mining Module” by Aleksandra Voinea, 11th Grade, Bucharest, Romania, illustrating Roadmap Milestone 18.

PART I: INTRODUCTION
OUTLINE OF THE ROADMAP
PART II: MILESTONES TO ALL DESTINATIONS
PART III: UTILIZATION OF SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND RESOURCES
PART IV: TO THE MOON
PART V: TO MARS
PART VI: TO THE ASTEROIDS
PART VII: TO ORBITAL SPACE SETTLEMENTS
PART VIII: TO THE STARS

  • 41
    THE COLONIZATION OF (NEAR) SPACE
    By Keith Henson and Steve Nixon
  • 44
    ROADMAP ART CONTEST
    Student Art Contest Envisions Future Space Settlements
    By Lynne F. Zielinski
  • 46
    IMPLEMENTING THE NSS VISION
    By the Sacramento L5 Society Chapter of NSS
  • 8
    ISDC 2014 UPDATE
    The 33rd International Space Development Conference
    By Pat Montoure
  • 9
    LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
    By Pat Silver
  • 10
    NSS ANNOUNCEMENTS
    Caribbean Space Summit 2014
  • By Luisa Fernanda Zambrano-Marin, et.al.
  • 16
    LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIR
    Paradigm Shift: Interstellar Space Settlement Made Easy
    By Mark Hopkins

Ad Astra 2014 Spring (Volume 26 Number 1)

Cover image: Grand Prize Winner of the 2013 NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement International Student Art Contest: “Asteroid Mining Module” by Aleksandra Voinea, 11th Grade, Bucharest, Romania, illustrating Roadmap Milestone 18.

PART I: INTRODUCTION
OUTLINE OF THE ROADMAP
PART II: MILESTONES TO ALL DESTINATIONS
PART III: UTILIZATION OF SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND RESOURCES
PART IV: TO THE MOON
PART V: TO MARS
PART VI: TO THE ASTEROIDS
PART VII: TO ORBITAL SPACE SETTLEMENTS
PART VIII: TO THE STARS

  • 41
    THE COLONIZATION OF (NEAR) SPACE
    By Keith Henson and Steve Nixon
  • 44
    ROADMAP ART CONTEST
    Student Art Contest Envisions Future Space Settlements
    By Lynne F. Zielinski
  • 46
    IMPLEMENTING THE NSS VISION
    By the Sacramento L5 Society Chapter of NSS
  • 8
    ISDC 2014 UPDATE
    The 33rd International Space Development Conference
    By Pat Montoure
  • 9
    LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
    By Pat Silver
  • 10
    NSS ANNOUNCEMENTS
    Caribbean Space Summit 2014
  • By Luisa Fernanda Zambrano-Marin, et.al.
  • 16
    LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIR
    Paradigm Shift: Interstellar Space Settlement Made Easy
    By Mark Hopkins