» Artificial Gravity - Articles on rotating structures by Ted Hall, with links to dissertation, conference papers, and software.
» Astrosociology.com - Study of sociological aspects of space exploration and settlement.
» Beanstalk elevator - "Virtual beanstalk" amateur design group for a (small scale) space elevator.
» Bioastronautics Roadmap at NASA - NASA analysis of critical research and development issues, particularly relating to medical needs, for human exploration and settlement of space; focus on space station, Moon, and Mars mission concepts.
» 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.
» DaedalusaL4 Guide - 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.
» Denie's Off World Training - Bodybuilding, weight training, and related matters, with this section covering the problems and need for resistance machine activities in zero-g.
» 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 - Ideas for colonizing the moon, Mars, the asteroid belt and the galaxy.
» Inter PlaNetary Internet - Internet Society special interest group focused on deep space, long time-lag communications.
» International Space Settlement Design Competition - An annual event in which teams of high school students prepare designs for cities in space.
» Interstellar Missions - News of breakthroughs in propulsion physics and the search for extra-solar planets that will enable missions beyond the solar system.
» Island One Society - Propulsion systems, business ideas, archives of space meetings and journals, and political advocacy for the space frontier.
» L5: First City In Space - IMAX 3D film (1996) on how humans may live and travel in our solar system a century from now.
» Laying the Foundation for Space Solar Power: (2001) - National Research Council study of NASA's late 1990's space solar power efforts.
» Living on Green Islands in Space - Information about O'Neill-type orbiting habitats and why we may want to built them.
» NASA Ames - Space Settlement Contests - Annual design contest for school-age kids, grades 6-12. Links to winning designs.
» National Space Society Roadmap for the Settlement of Space - List of Milestones and Barriers to Space Settlement
» Notable Nearby Stars - Information about nearby star systems out to 65 light years.
» Office of Space Commercialization - US Government office - studies on market for space tourism, satellite industry, and other aspects of space development.
» Oregon L5 Society - Oregon chapter of the National Space Society; many studies and reports on in-situ resource utilization and related aspects of space development.
» Space Colonies - Full text of the 1977 CoEvolution book _Space Colonies_, which is now out of print.
» Space Colony Artwork 1970s - A collection of images from early NASA work on large-scale space habitats.
» Space Colony Terra Nova: Beyond 2001 - Full design from the first place winner (Individual grade 10-12) in the 1997 NASA-Ames Space Settlement Design Contest
» Space Elevator Reference - Scientific, engineering, economic and policy challenges inherent in constructing the solar systems first space elevator.
» Space Settlement - NASA research office offering introduction to the subject with studies, on-line books, links and a student contest.
» Space Settlement - Colonizing the Cosmos - Al Globus' studies, reviews, and links on the subject of O'Neill-style space settlements.
» Space Settlement - National Space Society - Collection of essays, articles, studies, and other reference materials on all aspects of colonizing and settling space.
» 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.
» Space Solar Power Monitor - News, discussion, links to latest information on SSP.
» Space Solar Power Workshop - Discussion of the energy path for space development.
» Space Studies Institute - The organization founded by Gerard O'Neill, with detailed information about his space settlement proposals.
» SpaceArchitect.org - AIAA subcommittee on aerospace architecture in space and on Earth.
» Starships and Space Colonies - Technology and engineering discussion of possible orbital space colonies designs.
» The Apollo Society - Organization dedicated to advance space exploration and the establishment of human communities beyond Earth.
» The Case for Space - Articles and short stories by Robert Weidner, on various roads to space colonization.
» The Preparation - Links between nanotechnology and space colonization; essays on the transhuman future.
» The Space Flag - A flag designed to be flown by supporters of space colonization.
» The Space Frontier Foundation - Articles, discussion sites, meetings, and government advocacy dedicated to opening the space frontier as rapidly as possible.
» The Space Settlement Institute - A non-profit association founded to help promote space colonization; emphasis on property rights law.
» The Space Settlers' Society - contacts and articles on European space advocacy, ramjets, and space tourism.
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