by National Space Society | Nov 16, 2020 | Space Colonization, Space Settlement
By Dale Skran In a previous post on What Is a Space Settlement? I made a serious effort to define a “space settlement” and came up with this: “A space settlement” refers to a habitation in space or on a celestial body where families live on a permanent basis, and that...
by National Space Society | Jul 24, 2020 | Space Colonization, Space Development, Space Settlement
Isaac Arthur, recipient of the NSS Space Pioneer Award for Education via Mass Media, has posted this 20-minute video based on the first 12 milestones in the NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement.
by Emily Carney | Apr 18, 2020 | Astronauts, Space Colonization, Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney When I started researching and writing this series last year, it was months before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived Stateside, entering the U.S. – and the entire world – by force into an uncertain new era. As these events and this...
by National Space Society | Apr 1, 2020 | NSS Website Updates, Space Colonization, Space Settlement
New in the NSS Space Settlement Journal is the article Shielded Dumbbell L5 Settlement by Pekka Janhunen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki. Abstract We present a two-sphere dumbbell configuration of a rotating settlement at Earth-Moon L5. The...
by Emily Carney | Mar 1, 2020 | Space Colonization, Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In this series’ previous article, Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill had just been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a rare bone marrow cancer. Once this diagnosis had been made, O’Neill dove into tackling the disease with his...
by National Space Society | Dec 12, 2019 | Space Colonization, Space Development, Space Settlement, The Space Movement
By Dale L. Skran Copyright 2019 The deceptively simple term “space settlement” can become controversial among space advocates. The purpose of this essay is to systematically lay out what “space settlement” means to me, and also what it is not. Before we get too far...
by National Space Society | Jul 13, 2019 | NSS Website Updates, Space Colonization, Space Settlement
New in the NSS Space Settlement Journal is the article Control of Habitat’s Carbon Dioxide Level by Biomass Burning by Pekka Janhunen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki. Abstract Consider a free-space settlement with a closed ecosystem. Controlling...
by National Space Society | May 25, 2019 | National Space Society, Space Colonization, Space Settlement
On the Science Edition of Voice of America Press Conference USA, host Rick Pantaleo discusses the possibilities of life in space with Mark Hopkins and Al Globus of the National Space Society (30 minutes).
