Latest News
Stupidity and Ignorance are not the same things. Ignorances can be fixed. Stupidity is not doing it.
It all seems rather obvious and easy. Returning natural samples to Earth for analysis is fundamentally important to the...
Spin. Spin. Spin. Three linked reasons.
Spin. For the importance of it: "People have a naive faith (fueled by media or science fiction) that on the Moon, or...
Have you seen this? Bet you have, but not this way. 1976 MIT Space Colony Systems Design
To a Librarian, every protocol-followed, clinically-cataloged, environmentally-protected and filed-away asset has a real...
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
5-yr commitment
Supporting Member
Student Member
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
OUR PROGRAMS
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.
OUR PROGRAMS
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.
OUR PROGRAMS
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.