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>From OTA@S1-A Sun Nov  8 04:52:11 1981

SPACE Digest                                      Volume 2 : Issue 30

Today's Topics:
			      Administrivia
		    Bibliography on Space Colonization
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Date: 6 Nov 1981 22:31-PST
To: SPACE-Enthusiasts at MIT-MC
From: The Moderator <OTA at S1-A>
Subject: Administrivia

I have been having a lot of trouble getting SPACE Digests out recently.
I get the feeling I am in a golf course that is 85% sand traps and all I
have is a driver!  It looks like substantial numbers of people did not get
digest #26 or #28.  Handling the requests for #23 was a major pain in
the ass.  So rather than have people send me 35 requests for assorted back
issues, I will just send out a redundant copy too all hosts which I suspect
were left out.  But I think I will wait to for the hardware problems that
have been at the root of the problem to clear up first.  Thanks for
putting up with this difficulty.
	Ted Anderson

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Date: 5 Nov 1981 20:19:38-PST
From: A.exp at Berkeley
Subject: Bibliography on Space Colonization

The following is a  short  bibliography	 on  space  colonization,
which is timely	because	of the upcoming	Shuttle	launch.


		      Selected Bibliography


		       Non-Technical Works

``Colonies in Space.''	Time, June 3, 1974, p. 51.A brief summary
of the facts.

``Colonies in Space.''	Ron Chernow.  The  Smithsonian,	 February
1976,  pp.  62-69.  An interesting speculative article describing
the quality of life in a space colony.

The High Frontier:  Human Colonies in Space.  Gerard K.	 O'Neill.
1977.	The  landmark  book  on	the colonization of space, by the
principal worker in the	field.	Phi Beta Kappa Award for  Science
Book  of  the Year.  Builds a strong case for why space	should be
colonized.

  Hardbound 288pp., $8.00 from:	[I have seen a version of this in
  William Morrow and Co., Inc.	 paper back for 2.95 or so.  I
  Wilmer Warehouse		 don't have the ref tho. -ota]
  6 Henderson Dr.
  West Caldwell, NJ 07006

Colonies in Space.  T. A. Heppenheimer.	 1977.	Less cautious  in
tone  than  O'Neill's  book,  this volume develops the methods by
which space will be colonized.	A lively, well-illustrated work.

  Hardbound 224pp., $12.95 from:  Paperbound 321pp., $2.50 from:
  Stackpole Books		  Warner Books
  Cameron and Kelker Streets	  Warner Paperback Library
  P. O.	Box 1831		  75 Rockefeller Plaza
  Harrisburg, PA 17105		  New York, NY 10019

Spaceships of the Mind.	 Nigel Calder.	1978.	This  beautifully
illustrated  volume  is	 the  result  of  a BBC	television series
broadcast in 1978.  It is an overview of  space	 exploration,  as
well  as of the	specifics of space colonization, from the present
concepts to those of the far future.

  Hardbound 144pp., $14.95 from:  Paperbound 144pp., $6.95 from:
  The Viking Press		  Penguin Books, Inc.
  625 Madison Avenue		  625 Madison Avenue
  New York, NY 10022		  New York, NY 10022

Doomsday Has Been Cancelled.  J. Peter Vajk.  1978.  An	 in-depth
evaluation  of the basis for movement into space marks this work.
It reviews benefits to the Earth and changes in	the state of  so-
ciety which will result	from the utilization of	space.

  Paperbound 238pp., $7.95 from:
  Peace	Press, Inc.
  3828 Willat Avenue
  Culver City, CA 90230

The L-5	News.  The publication of the L-5  Society,  an	 interna-
tional	organization  actively advocating space	development.  The
L-5 Society also has available many reprints; a	 listing  may  be
obtained on request.  Subscriptions to The L-5 News:

  $12/year from:
  The L-5 Society
  1060 E. Elm
  Tucson, AZ  85719


			 Technical Works


``The Colonization of Space.''	G. K.  O'Neill.	  Physics  Today.
September  1974,  pp.  32-40.	A  survey  of the basic	order-of-
magnitude results which	first indicated	the feasibility	of  space
colonization.

``The Low-Profile  Road	 to  Space  Industrialization.''   G.  K.
O'Neill.   Astronautics	 and  Aeronautics,  March 1978,	pp.24-32.
Updated	results	on optimization	of space industrialization,  from
the 1976 and 1977 NASA Ames Summer Studies on space settlement.

Space Settlements-A Design Study (NASA SP-413).	  R.  D.  Johnson
and  C.	 Holbrow, eds.	1977.  A summary of the	1975 Summer Study
on the Settlement of Space at  the  NASA  Ames	research  center.
Though	lacking	in some	conceptual advances which reduce the cost
of space industrialization by an order of magnitude (see  biblio-
graphic	entries	below and immediately preceding), it does provide
an excellent introduction to the technical requirements	of  space
colonies.

  185pp., $5.00	postpaid from:
  Superintendent of Documents
  U. S.	Government Printing Office
  Washington, DC 20402
  Specify stock	no. 033-000-00669-1.

Progress in Astronautics  and  Aeronautics  v.	57:   Space-based
Manufacturing  from  Nonterrestrial Materials.	G. K. O'Neill and
B. T. O'Leary, eds.  1977.  Contains papers from  the  1976  NASA
Ames/OAST  Summer  Study  on concepts required to initiate large-
scale manufacturing in space, using  materials	found  in  space.
Also  presented	were papers taking a systems-analysis approach to
space industrialization	concepts.   Was	subject	to peer	review.

  177pp., $23.00 from:
  American Institute of	Aeronautics and	Astronautics
  Technical Information	Service
  750 Third Avenue
  New York, NY 10017

Space Resources	 and  Space  Settlement	 (NASA	SP-428).   G.  K.
O'Neill	and J. Billingham, eds.	 1979.	Summarizes 1977	NASA Ames
summer study on	space development.  Technical results  on  regen-
erative	life-support systems, utilization of lunar resources, and
electromagnetic	mass-drivers, among  other  topics.   Subject  to
peer review.

  288 pp., $6.50 from:
  Superintendent of Documents
  U. S.	Government Printing Office
  Washington, DC 20402
  Specify stock	no. 033-000-00765-5

``Habitat and Logistic Support Requirements for	the Initiation of
a  Space Manufacturing Enterprise.''  J. P. Vajk, G. H.	Engel, J.
A. Shettler, in	Space Resources	and Space Settlement.  1979.  pp.
61-83.	Details	of a step-by-step approach to setting up manufac-
turing facilities in space, using only the Space Shuttle.  Demon-
strates	 that  construction of solar power satellites could begin
only seven years after the first launch	of equipment from  Earth.
Launch could begin in 1985.

``Mass Driver Up-Date.''  H.  Kolm.   The  L-5	News.	September
1980, pp. 10-12.  Details on electromagnetic-driven launchers now
being studied by a team	at MIT and Princeton, designed to  launch
cylindrical  projectiles  from	the Earth, at $1.00 to $20.00 per
pound.	The projectiles	are accelerated	to Earth  orbit	 velocity
or  beyond in wells in the Earth, then launched	through	the atmo-
sphere,	where they lose	only 3%	mass to	ablation.

Space Colonization-An Annotated	Bibliography.  Michael E.  Marot-
ta.   1980.   Includes	an introductory	essay.	More than 100 en-
tries, both technical and non-technical.

  31pp., $4.00 from:
  Loompanics Unlimited
  P. O.	Box 264
  Mason, MI 48854

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