February 2021
Supporting sustainable lunar development
... and powerful individuals and nations, and we will fail to realise the full benefits space offers. The key to making services for space settlement affordable and inclusive lies in effectively channelling the economic rents resulting from activities...
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...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
... foundations for our rapidly developing human cultural space development, and the vast opportunities for expanding...thrive as we establish new and unique civilizations in our space settlements and explorations. The Expedition 68 crew aboard the ISS ...
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...
