Triggering Events for the First Space Settlement

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Jan 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003aipc..654.1279g&link_type=abstract

SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS INT.FORUM-STAIF 2003: Conf.on Thermophysics in Microgravity; Commercial/Civil Next Generation

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Spaceborne And Space Research Instruments, Apparatus, And Components, Science And Government, Science And Society

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We know where humankind is now in its limited ability to venture into space, and we can envision technologies that include routine space flight and large human populations in space; the challenge is to figure out how to get from where we are now to what we can envision. Although the technical challenges of space infrastructure development will be significant, the factors most responsible for preventing us from surmounting those challenges are politics and economics. Various rationales have been proposed by other authors and are summarized, with assessments of the hurdles involved in each. In an effort to make Space Settlement Design Competitions for high school students as realistic as possible, the co-authors developed a compelling rationale for building the first community in space and the infrastructure required to support it, which passes the tests of economic necessity and political appeal.

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