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 SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE COLONIZATION (2007)

SPACE EXPLORATION

• Centaur Application to Robotic and Crewed Lunar Lander Evolution
• Nanoparticle Electric Propulsion for Space Exploration

SPACE BASES ON THE MOON

• MIC: Magnetically Deployable Structures for Power, Propulsion, Processing, Habitats and Energy Storage at Manned Lunar Bases
• Moon Bases as Initial "Space Society" Trials: Utilizing Astrosociology to Make Space Settlements Livable
• What Will We Actually Do On the Moon?

SPACE RESOURCE UTILIZATION ON THE MOON

• Development of an Integrated RVC – LWRD System for RESOLVE
• Microwave Extraction of Water from Lunar Regolith Simulant
• Drilling Results in Ice-Bound Simulated Lunar Regolith
• Vacuum Pyrolysis and Related ISRU Techniques

SPACE RESOURCE UTILIZATION ON MARS

• Percussive Penetration of Unconsolidated Granular Media in a Laboratory Setting
• Martian Liquid CO2 and Metabolic Heat Regenerated Temperature Swing Adsorption for Portable Life Support Systems
• Lunar In Situ Materials-Based Surface Structure Technology Development Efforts at NASA/MSFC
• Multi-MICE: Nuclear Powered Mobile Probes to Explore Deep Interiors of the Ice Sheets on Mars and the Jovian Moons

SPACE SETTLEMENTS OR COLONIES

• Symbiotic Relationship of Man and Machine in Space Colonization
• Optimal Architecture for an Asteroid Mining Mission: System Components and Project Execution

BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE FOR SPACE COLONIZATION

• A Minimized Technological Approach towards Human Self Sufficiency off Earth
• The All Terrain Bio-Nano Gear for Space Radiation Detection System

LARGE SCALE PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR COLONIZATION

• On the Possibility of a Persistent Mars Greenhouse, or, Mars and Venus Find Something in Common
• The CI Carbonaceous Chondrites as the Missing Old Meteorites of Mars

SPACE RESOURCE UTILIZATION ON THE MOON II

• High-Efficiency Extraction and Utilization of Lunar Solar Wind Volatiles
• Development of a Reactor Model for Chemical Conversion of Lunar Regolith
• Tribocharging Lunar Simulant in Vacuum for Electrostatic Beneficiation
• A Quantitative Method for Evaluating Regolith Simulants

 

6TH SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE COLONIZATION (2008)

SPACE EXPLORATION: STRATEGIES

• Simulation and Analysis of Architectures for a Lunar Surface Outpost
• In-Situ Propellant Supplied Lunar Lander Concept
• Lunar Surface Architecture Utilization and Logistics Support Assessment

SPACE BASES ON THE MOON: CONCEPTS AND CHALLENGES

• Astrosociology and Space Exploration: Taking Advantage of the Other Branch of Science
• Risk-Assessment for Equipment Operating on the Lunar Surface

SPACE BASES ON MARS: HOW AND WHY?

• Spaceship Discovery's Crew and Cargo Lander Module Designs for Human Exploration of Mars
• Characterization and Glass Formation of JSC-1 Lunar and Martian Soil Simulants
• A Greenhouse for Mars and Beyond

SPACE SETTLEMENTS OR COLONIES

• The Space Homestead and Creation of Real Estate and Industry beyond Earth
• Space Colony from a Commercial Asteroid Mining Company Town

LUNAR DUST: FUNDAMENTALS AND SIMULATIONS

• Measurements of Charging of Apollo 17 Lunar Dust Grains by Electron Impact
• Some Expected Mechanical Characteristics of Lunar Dust: A Geological View