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Dinner on Mars: A Review
You might think that the organization with the clearest bloodline back to "that question" would avoid even mentioning...
SPS: Just Do It
We heard the word "wow" three times. Returning the volume to storage we opened it... and said "wow." 4 times. This volume...
Skyeports. Hmmm. Your thoughts?
I had an interesting chat today with Dr. Martin Bermudez, CEO/Senior Architectural Engineer of Skyeports. Dr. Bermudez is...
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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.