April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
... the infrastructure needed to sustain human life there. These are necessary and important first steps toward space settlement, but we must also consider how living on planets with dramatically different environments will affect generations of humans...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
...Earth orbiting constellations fit this description, as they were started by people who intend to participate or support human space settlement. There is, however, little if any straight line between them and the technologies or systems one would need...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... of building interplanetary fuel depots and large, radiation-protected, artificial gravity orbital stations near colonised planets. Space settlements on the Moon, Mars, Ceres, Titan and other celestial bodies can be protected from hypogravity, as the...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... be better established. This should enable even bolder visions for both space resource mining and space manufacturing capability, which should in turn make space settlement both desirable and practical. Concept image of Orbital ATK’s cislunar habitat...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... the big question: why? Why pursue the A in STEAM? Why pursue the uncountable opportunities in our future of space settlement before they exist, and why encourage students to consider careers that aren’t quite here yet? As the...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... for the environmental movement. Jeff Bezos has announced his intention to realise Gerard K O’Neill’s vision of large space settlements located at Lagrange Point L5. This quest for the ‘meaning’ of spaceflight reached a peak with the famous Earthrise...
