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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

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.

Conference Archives

SSI’s published proceedings and videos of conferences from 1974 to present

Conference Archives

SSI’s published proceedings and video records of conferences from 1974 to present