"Using the material and energy resources of space to improve the human condition on Earth."
-Gerard K. O’Neill
Opinion
SSI Supermodels (part 2): Make your own SSI Mass Driver
[looking for part 1 - the O'Neill Cylinder Model? click here!] In the early 1980s, Dr. Richard Woodbridge III, a Princeton graduate and retired Vice-President of the New York Life Insurance Company was SSI's Executive Vice President. The SSI Conference Proceedings...
Energy. And Power.
Heinlein correctly said at the end of Have Spacesuit Will Travel that there is no "Luck": "Why were you on that frequency? Because you were wearing a space suit. Why were you wearing it? Because you were determined to space. When a space ship called, you answered. If...
SSI Supermodels (part 1)
With summer coming to an end and vacations over it's time to find things close to home to keep the kids (or grandkids) occupied. How about an O'Neill Colony that's easy to put together and makes The Vision a physical reality that you can see from all angles ... on a...
High Frontier giveaway results are in
This note comes a little late as I was in DC the past few days for SSI (more on that to come soon). We want all SSI Associates to know that we've added up the worldwide free units from our Apollo 11 Anniversary week High Frontier Kindle edition giveaway and over 1700...
New on the SSI YouTube Channel Jo Franklin's The Great Space Race: The Next Civilization
While working as the Washington producer for the legendary MacNeil/Lehrer Report, Jo Franklin became frustrated by the coverage of Space events and she set out to make a difference. The result was an epic 4 part PBS special series backed by a grant from Boeing called...
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