Industrializing the near-earth asteroids: Speculations on human activities in space in the latter half of the 21st century

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Apr 1990

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In NASA. Lewis Research Center, Vision-21: Space Travel for the Next Millennium p 37-53 (SEE N91-22139 14-12)

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Asteroids, Extraterrestrial Resources, Space Exploration, Space Industrialization, Space Manufacturing, Space Processing, Mining, Mission Planning, Project Planning

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The use of solar system resources for human industry can be viewed as a natural extension of the continual growth of our species' habitat. Motivations for human activities in space can be discussed in terms of five distinct areas: (1) information processing and collection; (2) materials processing; (3) energy production to meet terrestrial power needs; (4) the use of extraterrestrial materials; and (5) disaster avoidance. When considering 21st-Century activities in space, each of these basic motivations must be treated in light of issues likely to be relevant to the 21st-Century earth. Many of the problems facing 21st-Century earth may stem from the need to maintain the world population of 8 to 10 billion people as is projected from expected growth rates. These problems are likely to include managing the impact of industrial processes on the terrestrial biosphere while providing adequate energy production and material goods for the growing population. The most important human activities in space in the latter half of the 21st Century may be associated with harnessing the resources of the near-earth asteroids for industrial processes. These above topics are discussed with an emphasis on space industrialization.

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