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 | Jun 10, 2020 | Apollo, Astronauts, Skylab Space Station, Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In the last installment of This Space Available, the life and career of Dr. Philip Chapman, NASA’s first Australian-born astronaut, was discussed from the time he joined the exclusive cadre in 1967 to 1970, when he was doing his...
by National Space Society | May 11, 2020 | Space Settlement
By Al Globus NSS Board of Directors Here’s an intriguing approach to an early free-space settlement. These settlements rotate to produce artificial gravity so the kids will grow up with strong bones and muscles. Launch cost is the most vexing problem for building such...
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 Emily Carney | Feb 1, 2020 | Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney “Our country has not survived its first two centuries on the basis of promised happiness…rather, on the promise that the search for happiness could go on.” Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill In the last installment of this series, we saw Dr....
