Space Resources and Space Settlements

by Gerard K. O'Neill

Sixteen studies, including chapters on habitat design, electromagnetic mass drivers, asteroids, lunar building materials, nonterrestrial materials etc.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1979

About the author

Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6, 1927 – April 27, 1992) was an American physicist and space activist. As a faculty member of Princeton University, he invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiments. Later, he invented a magnetic launcher called the mass driver. In the 1970s, he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space, including a space habitat design known as the O'Neill cylinder. He founded the Space Studies Institute, an organization devoted to funding research into space manufacturing and colonization. His award-winning book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space inspired a generation of space exploration advocates. (Wikipedia)