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L5 News 1978

L5 News cover, June 1978 Cover art courtesy of NASA Johnson Space Center illustrates space manufacturing scenario. Lower left, a mass driver reaction engine is propelling an asteroid into Earth orbit. Lower right, a mining and processing operation has been set in operation on a second asteroid. Upper left, a solar power satellite is under construction, utilizing resources from the nearby asteroid. Upper right, a Bernal shpere space colony houses 10,000 people, many of whom are working as asteroid miners and SPS construction workers. To download, RIGHT CLICK on the link and choose SAVE TARGET AS (or your browser's equivalent). This will download the issue to your computer instead of just open it in your browser.

L5 News, January 1978
24 pages, 1.0 MB
Editor: Carolyn Henson
Deep Sea Mining: A Model for Extraterrestrial Resource Mining? by H.K. Henson
Astronaut Corps - Or Space Soldiers? by Robin Snelson
Preliminary Earthport Design
Bibliography Update

L5 News, February 1978
20 pages, 1.7 MB
Editor: Carolyn Henson
SPS in Congress
OTRAG: Bold Pioneer Faces Hostile World
Space Industrialization: Whence Cometh Confusion? by Gordon Woodcock
SPS: Near Future Energy Source?
Review: Space Colonies, edited by Stewart Brand
Industrialization of Space Conference papers

L5 News, March 1978
20 pages, 1.4 MB
Editor: Carolyn Henson
NASA Budget
Senate Symposium on Future of Space Applications
Congressional Testimony of Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill
Salyut 6
The Cosmos-929 Enigma, by James Oberg
More on Military Shuttle Pilots

L5 News, April 1978
20 pages, 1.1 MB
Editor: Carolyn Henson
Sunsat Energy Council Formed
Jimmy C. Will Increase NASA's Budget If Good Friend Jerry B. Will Take Permanent Space Walk
Convair to Design System For Space Orbit Assembly
Be Your Own Astronaut (if Bob Truax gets his way)
Space Mines, Space Law, and the Third World, by Eric Drexler
Salyut 6 Facts & Figures, by James Oberg
OTRAG News
The High Frontier in paperback

L5 News, May 1978
20 pages, 1.l MB
Editor: Carolyn Henson
SPS Hearings: Momentum Lost?, by Ken McCormick
Melcher Introduces Senate Solar Power Satellite Bill
Microwave False Alarm
SPS - "A Gross Perversion of Our Solar Energy Priorities" (Rep. Ottinger)
HR 10601: Focus of Controversy
Microwaves: SPS Hazard, by Eric Drexler
Lunar Resources Study Underway
Soviet Spacecraft Mysteries Intensify, by James Oberg
Environmental Implications of SPS, by Peter Glaser
Earthport Launch Site Proposal Draws International Response

L5 News, June 1978
20 pages, 876 KB
Editor: Carolyn Henson
Boland's Committee Cuts NASA Appropriation
DOE, NASA's Plans for SPS
Space Industrialization Study Indicates Space Investments Yield High Returns
Intrinsically Valuable Materials in Space, by Stewart Nozette
Some Rudiments of Economics for Non-Economists, by Gordon Woodcock
Response to "Space Mines"
Domicile and Industry in Outer Space (Precis and Epilogue), by J. Henry Glazer
L-5 Society Bylaw and Board Election

L5 News, July 1978
20 pages, 7 MB
Editor: Eric Drexler
The New Space Program: Conflict, Cooperation, and Common Interest, by Eric Drexler
Suppose Isabella Had Said "No"? by Robert G. Nichols
A Social Psychologist Looks at the Space Program, by Charles J. Divine
Boeing, ADL Outline SPS Development Plans, by Eric Drexler
Offshore Satellite Solar Power Receiver Studied, by Tom Brosz
Laser Propulsion to Geosynchronous Orbit, by Eric Drexler
Bibliography Update

L5 News, August 1978
16 pages, 5 MB
Editor: Carolyn Henson
Skyhook!, by Hans Moravec
OTRAG: Progress in the Face of Adversity, by Carolyn Henson
Space Settlements Conference at JPL, by Taylor Dark III
Space Processing: the "STAMPS" of Disapproval, by Leonard David

L5 News, September 1978
20 pages, 5.5 MB
Editor: Carolyn Henson
SPS Hearings (Part I), by Ken McCormick
Energy and Alternative Futures, by Gordon R. Woodcock
L5 Society Slide Show

L5 News, October 1978
20 pages, 6.6 MB
Editor: Carolyn Henson
NASA-Supported Study at University of Arizona Selects Crops for Closed Habitats in Space
L-5 Symposium at World Science Fiction Convention
The Prisoner and Space, by Lawrence Brozik
SPS Hearings (Part II), by Ken McCormick
Facts and Fallacies of Space Warfare, by James Oberg
AAS Conference: "The Future United States Space Program"

L5 News, November 1978
20 pages, 6.2 MB
Editor: Carolyn Henson
Russia's "Guest Cosmonaut" Program, by James Oberg
What Are Solar Power Satellites? by Carolyn Henson
Solar Power Satellites: Boon or Boondoggle, by Mark Gibson
The Solar Power Satellite in the Time of Timidity, by Arthur Kantrowitz

L5 News, December 1978
20 pages, 6.9 MB
Editor: Jennifer L. Atkins
Name of Newly-Discovered Asteroid Honors Camp David Peace Conference
International Astronautical Federation Conference, by Frederick H. Osborn, Jr.
Mining the Moon, by William N. Agosto
Carter Sets Space Policy, by Leonard David
Congress Views Space, by Paul J. Werbos

 

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