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Recommended Colonisation Books
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Can anyone recommend any books on space colonisation. I have O'niells but was looking for others, in a perfect world some more modern incorporating later data. Given the gravity issues would prefer those talking about Space colonisation. Dont want anything like that Zubrin rubbish eg:case for mars. Prefer some scientific basis to the book rather than delusional science fantasy wrapped in pretend science. Appreciate it. Jacob |
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I don't have any more modern ones to mention.
NASA had a special publication on this stuff: "Space Settlements: A Design Study", NASA Special Publication 413; I'm lucky enough to have a paper copy of this book, which I was able to recognize as being typeset on an IBM Selectric Composer. In confirming its identity without walking to the next room to look at my copy, I found this site, though: http://www.nss.org/resources/library/ There was also that thing from the Whole Earth Catalog people, Space Colonies - A CoEvolution Book. I see it has a web site too: http://wholeearth.com/issue/1200/art...evolution.book John Savard |
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Recommended Colonisation Books
On 11/18/2010 6:35 PM, JDonat wrote:
Hi, Can anyone recommend any books on space colonisation. I have O'niells but was looking for others, in a perfect world some more modern incorporating later data. Given the gravity issues would prefer those talking about Space colonisation. Dont want anything like that Zubrin rubbish eg:case for mars. Prefer some scientific basis to the book rather than delusional science fantasy wrapped in pretend science. Appreciate it. Jacob T. A. Heppenheimer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._A._Heppenheimer My personal favorite is Towards Distant Suns, although its a bit dated, it covers the development of the SSME. He's a space historian mostly. |
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On Nov 18, 5:35*pm, JDonat wrote:
Hi, Can anyone recommend any books on space colonisation. I have O'niells but was looking for others, in a perfect world some more modern incorporating later data. Given the gravity issues would prefer those talking about Space colonisation. Dont want anything like that Zubrin rubbish eg:case for mars. Prefer some scientific basis to the book rather than delusional science fantasy wrapped in pretend science. Appreciate it. Jacob "Mining the Sky" by John Lewis http://www.amazon.com/Mining-Sky-Unt...dp/0201328194/ The Earth Moon L4 and L5 points are high enough on earth's gravity well that they're vulnerable to perturbations from the sun. These locations aren't truly stable. So I wouldn't put massive colonies there as O'Neill advocated. Lagrange regions of interest are EML1 and EML2. These would be good locations for propellent depots. |
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Thanks to all for the replys.
I've ordered the Heppenheimer book, the latest one (2nd hand). The mining in the sky one seems to be more about resources than the actual colony details. Space Settlements: A Design Study is pure gold and is what got me interested, depressingly it is 35 years old hence why I was trying to find something more recent. For those who sent me materials offline thankyou. The HOPE reports were interesting as were some of the BIS reports around lunar et al colonies. I'm still wading through the russian materials, some of it is as good as Sp-413 although written with a technical audience in mind so need more time to absorb especially given the language barriers and need to translate some documents. But again this material is 20+ years old. Guess my hope of a more recent SP-413 kind of book or study was optimistic. Thanks again for everyones help, and if you think of anything else please feel to post or send to me via email. |
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