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American Institute of Physics
Conference Proceedings on Space Colonization
[Abstracts]

A section of the Space Settlement Library

1ST SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE COLONIZATION (2003)

Business Approach To Lunar Base Activation
AQUAPLEX An Environmentally Aware Model Lunar Settlement
An Interplanetary Rapid Transit System Between Earth and Mars
ISRU Development Strategy and Recent Activities to Support Near and Far Term Missions
Evaluation of Private Sector Roles in Space Resource Development
Investigation into Uses for Lunar Regolith
Surface Mine Design and Planning for Lunar Regolith Production
Operation, Modeling and Analysis of the Reverse Water Gas Shift Process
Extraction of Water from the Martian Atmosphere
Solar Energy for In-Situ Resource Utilization in Space
High Temperature Interaction Between H2, CH4, NH3 and Ilmenite
The Development of ISRU and ISSE Technologies Leveraging Canadian Mining Expertise
ISRU Reactant, Fuel Cell Based Power Plant for Robotic and Human Mobile Exploration Applications
Optimized ISRU Propellants for Propulsion and Power Needs for Future Mars Colonization
Visions and Possibilities for Future Exploration of Space
The Initial Nine Space Settlements
Colonization of Venus
Implications of Outside-the-Box Technologies on Future Space Exploration and Colonization
Tailored Force Fields for Space-Based Construction
Distributed Power Sources for Mars Colonization
Architecture Studies for Commercial Production of Propellants From the Lunar Poles
Space Colonization Using Space-Elevators from Phobos
Pathways To Colonization
A View of Future Human Colonies on Mars
New Concepts for Permanently Manned Lunar Bases, Report of the Lunar Base Design Workshop, held in Noordwijk, The Netherlands from 10–21 June 2002
The International Space Development Authority
Space Colonization — Benefits for the World
Triggering Events for the First Space Settlement
Stages in the Terraforming of Mars: the Transition to Flowering Plants
Terraforming Mars: Can We Feed Ourselves If We Go?

 

2ND SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE COLONIZATION (2004)

Xanadu: A Polar Base for Manufacturing Supplies on Mars
A Prototype Bucket Wheel Excavator for the Moon, Mars and Phobos
Is Extraction of Methane, Hydrogen and Oxygen from the Lunar Regolith Economically Feasible?
A Site Selection Technique for Martian Habitats
Unit Costs for Lunar-Derived Propellants
Benzene Production on Mars
Requirements for Space Settlement Design
Shell Worlds: An Approach to Making Large Moons and Small Planets Habitable

 

3RD SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE COLONIZATION (2005)

SPACE EXPLORATION:
Micro Asteroid Prospector Powered by Energetic Radioisotopes: MAPPER
The Plasma Magnet for Sailing the Solar Wind
A Concept Mission: Microbots for Large-Scale Planetary Surface and Subsurface Exploration

SPACE BASES:
Technical Feasibility Assessment of Lunar Base Mission Scenarios
The New Mars Synthesis: A New Concept of Mars Geo-Chemical History

SPACE RESOURCE UTILIZATION ON THE MOON:
Solar Thermal Power System for Lunar ISRU Processes
Granular Materials and the Risks they Pose for Success on the Moon and Mars
Carbon Reduction of Lunar Regolith for Oxygen Production

SPACE RESOURCE UTILIZATION ON MARS:
Microchannel Reactors for ISRU Applications

 

4TH SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE COLONIZATION (2006)

SPACE TOURISM ADVENTURES:
Lunar Colonization and NASA’s Exploration Changes
Designing the Orbital Space Tourism Experience

SPACE EXPLORATION:
Conceptual Design for Interplanetary Spaceship Discovery
Mars Transfer Vehicle and Lander Concepts for Human Exploration Missions in the 2031-2038 Time Frame
StarTram: An Ultra Low Cost Launch System to Enable Large Scale Exploration of the Solar System

SPACE BASES ON THE MOON:
Power System Concepts for the Lunar Outpost: A Review of the Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Management and Distribution (PMAD) System Requirements and Potential Technologies for Development of the Lunar Outpost

SPACE RESOURCE UTILIZATION ON THE MOON:
Effect of Water Ice Content on Excavatibility of Lunar Regolith
A Vibrofluidized Reactor for Resource Extraction from Lunar Regolith

SPACE RESOURCE UTILIZATION ON MARS:
Development of a Microchannel In Situ Propellant Production System
In Situ Manufacturing of Plastics and Composites to Support H&R Exploration
Microchannel Reactors for ISRU Applications Using Nanofabricated Catalysts
Recovering the Atmospheric Resources of Mars: Updating the MARRS Study

SPACE SETTLEMENTS OR COLONIES:
Next X-Prize: L1 Base with Linked Asteroid Mining as Prime Catalyst for Space Enterprise
The Astrosociology of Space Colonies: Or the Social Construction of Societies in Space
A New Method of Space Travel Optimized for Space Tourism and Colonization
Validation of Tailored Force Fields Concept for Use in Space-Based Construction

TERRAFORMING, DOMED ECOSYSTEMS AND PLANETARY SURFACES:
Mars X: A Mars Mission Architecture with Lunar-Mars Synergy

 

5TH CONFERENCE ON SPACE COLONIZATION (2007)
was held at the
Space Technology and Applications International Forum
February 11-15, 2007, Albuquerque, New Mexico

6TH CONFERENCE ON SPACE COLONIZATION (2008)

will be held at the
Space Technology and Applications International Forum
February 10-14, 2008, Albuquerque, New Mexico


 

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