Nov 3, 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...
Nov 3, 2024 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright © 2022 One of the most outstanding advantages orbital habitats have over planetary colonies is while the latter would be settlements in one particular location, space habitats can be built anywhere in the solar system we want to be. One of the...
Nov 3, 2024 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
A science fiction short story by Mike Combs, Copyright © 2020 My name is Arthur Mattson, and Forbes lists me as the richest man on the planet. I got there by being the creator of the Whammy website, which I doubt any of you don’t use on a daily basis. I was on my way...
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...
