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Space Settlement Library

• Online Space Settlement Books
• Colonies in Space, by T. A. Heppenheimer
• Toward Distant Suns, by T. A. Heppenheimer
• Space Resources Library
• Lunar Bases and Settlement Library
• Space Solar Power Library
• L5 News archive

Audio-Video Library

• NASA Video: Space Colonization (1976, 5 minutes)
• Mark Hopkins – The Space Show radio interview on space colonization (2007, 90 min.)

NSS Space Settlement Journal

NASA Ames Space Settlement Mirror Site

Contests

• NSS and NASA Ames Space Settlement Contest (Grades 6-12)
• International Space Settlement Design Contest (Grades 9-12)
• NSS Space Settlement Art Contests – Gallery of Submitted Art

Orbital Settlements

• Torus Designs
• Bernal Sphere
• O’Neill Cylinder
• Lewis One
• Kalpana One

Moon – Lunar Bases and Settlements

• Lunar Bases and Settlements Library
• Is a Domed Lunar City Possible?
• Viral Architecture for Lunar Settlements
• Return to the Moon studies:
  • 1992: First Lunar Outpost (FLO)
  • 1993: LUNOX
  • 1993: Early Lunar Access (ELA)
  • 1994: LOX-Augmented Nuclear Thermal Rocket (LANTR) & LUNOX
  • 1996: Human Lunar Return (HLR)
  • 2005: Constellation
  • 2015: NASA-Funded Study Reduces Cost of Human Missions to Moon and Mars by Factor of Ten
• Recommended Reading

Mars – Settling Mars

• The Promise of Mars, by Robert Zubrin
• The Case for Colonizing Mars, by Robert Zubrin
• The Significance of the Martian Frontier, by Robert Zubrin
• Mars Library

Asteroids

• Article: Asteroid Mining – Key to the Space Economy
• Paper: Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study (PDF 2012)
• Paper: The Technical and Economic Feasibility of Mining the Near-Earth Asteroids

L5 News

• What is L5?
• Brief History of the L5 Society
• L5 Scenario in a Nutshell
• L5 News contents and back issues – 1975
• L5 News contents and back issues – 1976
• L5 News contents and back issues – 1977
• L5 News contents and back issues – 1978
• L5 News contents and back issues – 1979
• L5 News articles from the 1980s

NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement

• 1st Edition 2001
• 2nd Edition 2012
• 3rd Edition 2018

Space Settlement Links