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SSI Update April 2012 – Introduction to G-Lab

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:00:51 +0000

The Great Enterprise Initiative

Today, the Space Studies Institute is announcing a new Great Enterprise Initiative and two special Projects that we hope will hasten the day when permanent space settlement arrives, fulfilling Professor Gerard K. O’Neill’s vision of forty years ago.

The Great Enterprise Initiative is a road map outlining the technologies and capabilities [...]

SSI Update December 2011

Robin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:03:33 +0000

Within the next ten years, one or more of the new space companies will develop a mature space transportation system, and the cost of space transportation will drop by a factor of between 10 and 50. While the technology for space transportation has been advancing rapidly in the past few years, the supporting technologies of [...]

Space Studies Institute Update Winter 2011

admin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:11:55 +0000

SSI held the 14th Conference on Space Manufacturing and Space Settlement at the NASA Ames Research Center on October 29-31, 2010. This marked a successful return of our influential meeting. Since the last conference, there has been huge progress in some technical areas and little in others. In particular, there has been excellent progress in [...]

SM 14 Archives

admin — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:49:06 +0000

Presentations delivered at the conference are collected at Archives of Space Manufacturing 14.

Video archives at SSI-TV on USTREAM.

Thanks for SM14

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:11:41 +0000

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement.

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Special thanks to NASA Ames Conference Center and NASA Ames Research Center.

Excellent content developed by conference chairs John Lewis and Lee Valentine, and session chairs Gary Hudson, Michael A’Hearn, [...]