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6 NASA SP-413 — SPACE SETTLEMENTS — A Design Study Appendix N — Impact of Earth Launch Vehicles on the Ozone Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 CHAPTER 5 — A TOUR OF THE COLONY Earth to Low Earth Orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 The Habitat at L5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Production at L5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 The Lunar Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 The Mass Catcher at L2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Home to Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Appendix A — Structures Design Concept for a Shell Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Appendix B — Structural System for Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Appendix C — Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Appendix D — Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Appendix E — Mass Shielding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Appendix F — The Mass Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Appendix G — The Mass Catcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Appendix H — Trajectories From the Moon to L2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Appendix I — Rotary Pellet Launcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Appendix J — Impact Upon Lunar Atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Appendix K — Chevron Shields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 CHAPTER 6 — BUILDING THE COLONY AND MAKING IT PROSPER Preparatory Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Materials and Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Transportation and Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Estimating Costs and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Production of Energy in Space as a Potential Economic Justification for Space Colonization . . . . . . . . 129 Appendix A — Space Colonization Cost Parametrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Appendix B — Lunar SSPS Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Appendix C — The Flyback F-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Appendix D — Methods for Estimating Cost and Time for SSPS and More Colonies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Appendix E — Electricity Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Appendix F — Composite Variables for SSPS and Additional Colonies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Appendix G — Concepts for Estimating Profits for the Colony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Appendix H — Environmental Impact of Microwave Power Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 CHAPTER 7 — VIEW TO THE FUTURE Benefits Not Related to Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Research in Deep Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Rocket Engines for Deep Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 The Asteroidal Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 New Methods of Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Habitat Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Automation and Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Limits to Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Some Economic Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 CHAPTER 8 — RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS Recommendations for Research and Development in Critical Subsystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Recommendations for Space Ventures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Units And Conversion Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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NASA SP-413 — SPACE SETTLEMENTS — A Design Study 7 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE NASA—ASEE ENGINEERING SYSTEMS DESIGN SUMMER PROGRAM June - August 1975 Faculty Fellows ABO-EL-ATA, MAMDOUH Division of Engineering San Francisco State University San Francisco, California 94132 FOX, JOEL Mechanical Engineering University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 GIESBRECHT, MARTIN Department of Economics and Administration Wilmington College Wilmington, Ohio 45177 HANNAH, ERIC Physics Department Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08540 HEPPENHEIMER, THOMAS Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 91125 HILL, PATRICK Archietecture & Environmental Design California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California 93401 HOLBROW, CHARLES Department of Physics & Astronomy Colgate University Hamilton, New York 13346 HUBBARD, MONT Mechanical Engineering University of California Davis, California 95616 HUDDLESTON, JR., TED Chemical Engineering University of Mississippi University, Mississippi 38677 JEBENS, HAROLD Civil Engineering University of Wisconsin-Platteville Platteville, Wisconsin 53818 LOPEZ, DAVID Dept. of Management & Organization University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195 MARUYAMA, MAGOROH Systems Science Portland State University Portland, Oregon 97207 MORGAN, DONALD Industrial Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California 93407 OWEN, GORDON Division of Engineering San Francisco State University San Francisco, California 94132 POLLACK, BARY Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California Berkeley, California 94720 RICHARDS, JR., ROWLAND Civil Engineering University of Delaware Newark, Delaware 19711 RUSSELL, ALLAN Department of Physics Hobart and Wm Smith Colleges Geneva, New York 14456 SUTTON, GORDON Department of Sociology University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts 01002 VOLTMER, DAVID 121 Electrical Engineering East Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 Students BRODY, STEVEN 54-620 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 BUGOS, BEVERLY (Hazelton) Aeronautics & Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 List Of Participants DREXLER, ERIC Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 HOPKINS, MARK Department of Economics Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 SPERBER, B. RAY Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 WINKLER, LAWRENCE H. Aeronautics & Astronautics; Life Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Visitors MACHOL, ROBERT Management Science Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60201 SKLAREW, RALPH Xonics 963 Dunlin Circle Westlake Village, California 91361 JONES, ROBERT T. Code D Ames Research Center Moffett Field, California 94035 Technical Director O’NEILL, GERARD K. Department of Physics Princeton University P.O. Box 708 Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Co-Directors JOHNSON, RICHARD D. Chief, Biosystems Division Ames Research Center Moffett Field, California 94035 VERPLANK, WILLIAM Mechanical Engineering Stanford University Stanford, California 94305
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