Related Links

• Bootstrapping Space Communities with Micro Rovers and High Tensile Boot Laces (Tethers)[PDF file]. How to Start Building Cities and Factories Thoughout the Solar System, for What We Are Now Spending on Space, authored by Bruce A. Mackenzie, Space Studies Institute - Senior Associate, and National Space Society - Director.
• Centripetal Vivarium Space Habitats by Andrew Thompson. Includes pictures and 3D model.
• A Futurist Perspective For Space by Dr. Kenneth J. Cox, (kenneth.j.cox1@jsc.nasa.gov), June 2001. (PDF file)
• Distant Space Travel Better Conducted As Family Affair. University of Florida Daily News article.
• SpaceSettlers. A site devoted to space settlement discussion.
• Astrobiology Web
• Space settlement contest NAS highlights. These are highlights associated with the design contest that were reported to NAS management.
• Videos of weightless living.
• Annotated bibliography.
• Ringworld: a Java applet to interactively explore some aspects of living in a rotating environment, particularly jumping off high platforms and throwing balls.
• Links to solar sail web sites.
• Lewis One space settlement design: intended to improve on the 10,000 inhabitant designs of the mid-70s depicted in the artwork (see above). The new design features large shielded micro-g construction bays, low-g agriculture near the rotation axis to reduce the length of cylindrical settlements, large micro-g visitor and recreation areas, space viewing, and low-g recreation.
• The Space Show. The Space Show focuses on timely and important issues influencing the development of outer-space commerce and space tourism, as well as other related subjects of interest to us all.
• Space Settlement papers
• "AsterAnts: A Concept for Large-Scale Meteoroid Return and Processing Using the International Space Station," Al Globus, Bryan Biegel, and Steve Traugott.
• Space playgound a zero-g playground designed by four, five, and six year olds at the Santa Cruz Children's School.
• General Public Space Travel and Tourism
• Related web sites.