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....
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 Emily Carney | Sep 12, 2019 | Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In last week’s This Space Available blog post, we ended with Dr. Brian O’Leary’s April 1968 resignation from the NASA astronaut corps, which left a bad taste in the mouths of many of his former colleagues. After accepting a...
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...
