Colonization
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- Essays and Manifestos (23)
- Games (5)
- Life Support (5)
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- Moon (15)
- Projects and Companies (12)
- Terraforming (14)
Links
Beanstalk elevator
http://members.aol.com/beanstalkr/project/
"Virtual beanstalk" amateur design group for a (small scale) space elevator.
Centripetal Vivarium Space Habitats
http://www.1point1c.org/tech/colony.jsp
Advocates, as preferable to lunar colonisation or terraforming, the construction of huge manufactured living spaces that can be spun to create gravitational effects.
Critical Path Roadmap
http://criticalpath.jsc.nasa.gov/
NASA analysis of critical research and development needs for human exploration and settlement of space.
DaedalusaL4 Guide
http://www.daedalusal4.utvinternet.co.uk/
Detailed design study for a 10,000 person space settlement in Earth orbit, using current technology. 2000 Grand Prize Winner in Space Settlement Design Contest.
Foundation Future 25
Emerging platform for long-term thinking, acting and growth. Supporting space colonization and the development of life and humanity on earth earth, the planets and in the universe.
Galleria 2433
http://interzone.com/~cheung/Gallery.dir/pg.gallery3.html
Ideas for colonizing the moon, Mars, the asteroid belt and the galaxy.
Island One Society
Propulsion systems, business ideas, archives of space meetings and journals, and political advocacy for the space frontier.
Laying the Foundation for Space Solar Power: (2001)
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309075971/html/
National Research Council study of NASA's late 1990's space solar power efforts.
Living on Green Islands in Space
http://www.dse.nl/~hkl/e_space.htm
Information about O'Neill-type orbiting habitats and why we may want to built them.
NASA Ames - Space Settlement Contests
http://www.belmont.k12.ca.us/ralston/programs/itech/SpaceSettlement/Contest/
Annual design contest for school-age kids, grades 6-12. Links to winning designs.