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SSI 50: A View From Kennedy
"We've certainly reached milestones that we didn't think we were going to reach before, and now they are the new norm" -...
SSI 50: Extraterrestrial Resources
Gerard K. O'Neill's Space Studies Institute was founded on the firm belief in "The High Frontier Concept," that the...
SSI 50: Space Construction Techniques
What is needed to build O'Neill Islands and Colonies or other real habitats for real humans in freespace? Join the...
Join & Support SSI
As befits an organization funded by individual donations, SSI is open and welcoming to those who are interested in space settlement and want to help. Volunteers have always made conferences run smoothly, publicized the institute’s work and helped recruit new associates.
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Join & Support SSI
As befits an organization funded by individual donations, SSI is open and welcoming to those who are interested in space settlement and want to help. Volunteers have always made conferences run smoothly, publicized the institute’s work and helped recruit new associates.
Senior Associate
$100/yr for 5 years
Supporting Member
$50/yr
Student Member
$25/yr
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G-LAB
The SSI G-Lab is a free flying orbital laboratory on orbit nearby, and not attached to, the International Space Station. This proximity allows for human tending of research animals with a relatively low fuel cost in that resupply craft from the Earth could visit the lab before or after ISS dockings.
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EXOTIC PROPULSION
In 2013 The Space Studies Institute announced the start of the Exotic Propulsion Initiative, a daring and important project to explore and fund breakthrough propulsion opportunities at the very borderlands of physics.
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SOLAR POWER SATELLITES
SPS is at the very core of the Space Studies Institute and has been since even before Gerard O’Neill officially started our organization.