Sep 16, 2024 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection: The Chicago Society for Space Studies is offering this collection of space settlement articles and space settlement short stories through the courtesy of Mike Combs, the creator and author of The Space Settlement Website, which...
Sep 24, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
Illustration: A solar-powered mass-driver. This is a solar-powered mass-driver, an electromagnetic linear accelerator. It can be utilized as a reaction engine which can use literally anything for fuel (even ground-up chunks of Space Shuttle External Tanks). The...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs,Copyright © 2004 In the 1970’s, Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill began a line of research which came to an unexpected conclusion. Alarmed by the then-prevalent talk about “limits to growth”, he started looking at the prospects...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright © 1999 This article also appeared in the Summer 1999 issue of Space Front, a publication of the Space Frontier Foundation. Here lately, I’ve found myself arguing a lot with Martians. No, that’s OK, I assure you it’s not a...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright © 2000 This article also appeared in the Summer 2000 issue of Space Front, a publication of the Space Frontier Foundation, and was presented at the 2004 International Space Development Conference. Certainly many early space thinkers have...
