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Space Settlement Library

Colonies in Space - complete online book by T. A. Heppenheimer
Space Settlements - A Design Study (NASA Special Publication 413)
Space Resources and Space Settlements (NASA Special Publication 428)
Space Colonies - CoEvolution Quarterly Book
Resources of Near-Earth Space - University of Arizona Press
Space Resources, NASA SP-509 (5 Volumes)
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Lunar Bases and Settlement Library

Mars Library

Resources of Near-Earth Space, Part IV: Mars
NASA Mars Reference Mission (Mars "Semi-Direct") [PDF 2.3 MB]
"Mars Direct" articles from Ad Astra
Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning, 1950-2000 [PDF 2.4 MB]
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Space Policy Library

U. S. National Space Policy, 2006
Stephen Hawking on "Why We Should Go Into Space" - 25 minute video and transcript
NASA's Exploration Systems Architecture Study (2005)
Mars Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Space Exploration Initiative (2007)
Report of the President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy, 2004
The Space Shuttle Decision, by T. A. Heppenheimer (1999)
America at the Threshold - Report of the Synthesis Group on America's Space Exploration Initiative, 1991
Pioneering the Space Frontier - Report of the National Commission on Space (1986)
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Space Elevator Library

Space Elevators - An Advanced Earth-Space Infrastructure for the New Millennium, 2000
The Space Elevator by Bradley C. Edwards (NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Study Phase 1 Final Report), 2000
The Space Elevator NIAC Phase 2 Final Report, 2003
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