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- 1000 Planets, Inc. - A start-up aerospace company dedicated to space commercialization through projects such as solar energy satellites, media and edutainment and various other enterprises.
www.1000planets.com
- Artificial Gravity - List of publications by Ted Hall, with links to dissertation, conference papers, and software.
www0.arch.cuhk.edu.hk/~hall/ag
- Bioterrorism May Spur Space Colonies - Plans to save civilization by sending people and important documents into space in a 21st Century Noah's Ark might get a boost from fears of bioterrorism.
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/colonize_now_011030-1.html
- Centripetal Vivarium Space Habitats - Advocates, as preferable to lunar colonisation or terraforming, the construction of huge manufactured living spaces that can be spun to create gravitational effects.
www.physci.org/1/tech/clnstn
- Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking - Interview with Britain's Daily Telegraph in which eminent cosmologist Stephen Hawking warns that the human race is likely to be wiped out before the millennium is out unless we set up colonies in space.
news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F10%2F16%2Fnhawk16.xml
- Crop Physiology Lab - CELSS: Controlled Ecological Life Support System
www.usu.edu/~cpl/celss.html
- Cygo's Space Initiative - A realistic, and economically viable, space colonization initiative.
cygo.com
- Frontier Theory - Articles on why humanity needs a frontier, some of them focused specifically on space colonization.
www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/frontier_theory
- Galleria 2433 - Ideas for colonizing the moon, Mars, the asteroid belt and the galaxy.
interzone.com/~cheung/Gallery.dir/pg.gallery3.html
- How to Become a Space Settler - The Busy Person's Guide to becoming a space colonist presents a few links and a 45-second newsletter.
wz.com/education/HowtoBecomeASpaceSettler.html
- International Space Settlement Design Competition - An annual event in which teams of high school students prepare designs for cities in space.
space.bsdi.com
- Island One Society - A group whose goal is to be a resource for those who will build free societies beyond Earth.
www.islandone.org
- Jerry Bull and the Space Rodent Rangers - Educational material about building a moonbase.
www.freeluna.com/jerybull
- Living in Space - Short articles on the rewards and dangers of space colonization by David DeGraff, who teaches astronomy at Alfred University.
merlin.alfred.edu/degraff/LivingInSpace/index.html
- Living on Green Islands in Space - Information about O'Neill-type orbiting habitats and why we may want to built them.
www.dse.nl/~hkl/e_space.htm
- LunaVerse: a virtual lunar community - A virtual community based on a hypothetical lunar colony for education and fun. Made up of a collection of web sites for hypothetical businesses, governments, organizations, individuals, anarcho-capitalist and libertarian enclaves, etc. Free web space, DNS, and email for participants who need it. LunaVerse is an all-volunteer project.
www.lunaverse.com
- Moonbase Explorer - Proposed lunar base. Includes information on the process of constructing the base, priorities, a timeline for assembly, an image gallery, and links to related resources.
pages.prodigy.net/jajobe/index.html
- MoonBeam Enterprises and Lunar Travel Agency - A fun and unique gift/conversation piece. Own Yours Today. Give something interesting and different
www.dreamweaverstudios.com/moonbeam/moon.htm
- Our Future in the Cosmos - Essay by Isaac Asimov about the need for the future settlement of space.
www.foozone.org/asimov.html
- PERMANENT - Examination of the economics feasibility and construction of manned bases in deep space.
www.permanent.com
- Purdue NSCORT - Purdue's NSCORT on Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS)
www.bio.purdue.edu/nscort/homepage.html
- Rove the Moon - Beat Alan Shepards Apollo 14 golf record. Or operate your own moon buggy via the Internet or full experience simulator. Teleoperate a real lunar rover on the moon
www.rovethemoon.com
- Space and Human Survival - Essay by science fiction author Sylvia Engdahl about the importance of expanding beyond Earth.
www.sylviaengdahl.com/space.htm
- Space Colonies - Full text of the 1977 CoEvolution book _Space Colonies_, which is now out of print.
lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/CoEvolutionBook
- Space Colonization - Discusses the rationale of space colonization, with the premise that a natural progression of technology and scientific understanding must necessarily precede it.
www-scf.usc.edu/~curtisjr
- Space Colonization and SETI - Interview with Gerard K. O'Neill by John Kraus of COSMIC SEARCH.
www.bigear.org/vol1no2/oneill.htm
- Space Colonization Basics - A beginner's guide to space colonization.
science.nas.nasa.gov/Services/Education/SpaceSettlement/Basics/wwwwh.html
- Space Colonization: A Home for the Dreamers Among Us - A space enthusiast's site; its goals are to increase public support for space colonization and to come up with plans that can be utilized by government and private agencies.
www.spacecolonization.com
- Space Environments Ecovillage - SEE-1 is the first experimental space colony founded by the Living Universe Foundation (the LUF).
www.see-1.org
- Space Quotes to Ponder - What famous people, and some not famous, have said about why humankind must colonize space.
www.sylviaengdahl.com/space2.htm
- Space Settlement - NASA educational site for space settlements.
science.nas.nasa.gov/Services/Education/SpaceSettlement
- Space Settlement - Discusses the space settlement proposals of Gerard K. O'Neill, as popularized in his book "The High Frontier". Features pictures and a FAQ.
members.aol.com/oscarcombs/settle.htm
- Space Settlement Initiative - A proposal to grant ownership of land on the moon and Mars to companies that establish settlements and agree to sell passage to anyone willing to pay a fair price.
SpaceSettlement.org
- Space Studies Institute - The organization founded by Gerard O'Neill, with detailed information about his space settlement proposals.
www.ssi.org
- The Artemis Project - A private international venture to establish a privately owned and operated exploration base on the moon.
www.asi.org
- The Big Picture - Essay by astronaut John Young about the need to preserve our species by putting humans permanently on the moon and Mars.
members.aol.com/ramjetwww1/private/Space/Young.html
- The Case for Space Colonization Now - Detailed argument for space colonization by Oscar Falconi.
www.nutri.com/space
- The Greater Earth Manifesto - A strong statement on the human space imperative by a group of European organizations.
www.greaterearth.org/ge_manif.htm
- The L5 Development Group - A privately funded, for profit, space exploration and development program whose initial business plan is to build space colonies at L5 and manufacture solar power satellites to meet the Earth's energy needs
L5Development.com
- The Preparation: Space Colonization - Detailed discussion by Rex Stephens about his book on the need for space colonization, asteroid mining, and transhumans.
thepreparation.net
- The Space Frontier Foundation - Organization dedicated to opening the Space Frontier to human settlement as rapidly as possible.
www.space-frontier.org
- The Top 3 Reasons to Colonize Space - SPACE.com asks Freeman Dyson and two other space-colonization enthusiasts why we should go beyond our home planet.
www.space.com/missionlaunches/colonize_why_011008-1.html
- Top Ten Reasons to Inhabit Outer Space - Report from the news service space.com about experts' opinions on why we should colonize space.
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/tenreasons_lead_000723.html
- URANOS: Club for Expansion of Civilization into Space - A group of people, mainly Poles or of Polish origin, who believe that expansion into space is a prerequisite for further development of our civilization. An English version of the site is maintained.
www.uranos.eu.org/uranose.html
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