Every issue is a trove of information. Some issues contain highly technical parts, but all are very readable. Start at the beginning and move along in order and you will come away with a “book” of value. We’ll bet that there will be at least 11 of these that will knock you out.
Seriously.
Why did SSI stop doing printed SSI UPdate Newsletters and “thinazines”? Round about 1994-95, the Space Studies Institute started a dial-up bulletin board, then a listserv and in 1996 SSI went on the web. Yeah, that early. SSI was on SecondLife too, talk about cutting edge!
While we still do email Newsletters for big important moments and even the occasional surprise printed SSI UPdate for a touch of fun nostalgia for our family of Associates, today Space Studies Institute announcements are on Facebook, SSI Videos are on the SSI YouTube Channel and SSI Audio is on the SSI Soundcloud Channel.
Times have changed and costs have risen. There definitely is something to be said for those olden days when SSI Associates looked forward to getting their UPdate in their mailbox but SSI lives by tax deductible donations from real people, and we try to be productive with your money.
However, if you really want print to return, you can actually make it happen… just click here. 🙂
And now, starting at the very beginning with Gerard K. O’Neill typing a one page letter on his typewriter, we present the History of The High Frontier Concept. Enjoy.
- 1974:
July 7th Princeton GKO’N - 1975:
January 9th Princeton GKO’N
June 15th Princeton GKO’N
December 10th Princeton GKO’N - 1976
June GKO’N
November BO’L - 1977
June 12th GKO’N
December BO’L - 1978
April GKO’N
June GKO’N
Summer Subscribers GKO’N - 1979
April Subscribers GKO’N
July Subscribers GKO’N
Fall Subscribers GKO’N - 1980
January Special Summary GKO’N
Spring Subscribers GKO’N
Summer GKO’N (detailed Mass Driver information)
Fall Subscribers GKO’N - 1981
Q1 Subscribers GKO’N
Q2 GKO’N
Q3 GKO’N
Q4 GKO’N – Waldron – Paine
Special Kids Edition - 1982
Q1 GKO’N
Q2 GKO’N
Q3 GKO’N (ever hear of GPS?)
Q4 GKO’N – UNISpace conference – Communities - 1983
Q1 GKO’N
Q2 GKO’N
Q3 GKO’N
Q4 GKO’N (SSI works with Disney on EPCOT) - 1984
Jan-Feb
Mar-Apr
May-Jun
Jul-Aug (Are we doing all we can?, GEOSTAR)
Sept-Oct
Nov-Dec - 1985
Jan-Feb
Mar-Apr
May-Jun (Reagan appoints GKO’N to NCOS)
Jul-Aug (85 Conference, LANL Guest Column)
Sept-Oct (Composites, Financing Space Development)
Nov-Dec - 1986
Jan-Feb (SSI overview for NCOS. Great issue)
Mar Apr (Spacehab, SEDS)
May-Jun (GEOSTAR in orbit, BIOSPHERE II)
Jul-Aug (Lunar composite glass)
Sept-Oct (composites conclusion)
Nov-Dec (NASA’s miss: External Tanks) - 1987
Jan-Feb (GKO’N, Lunar Prospector)
Mar-Apr (LP part 2)
May-Jun (Gordon Woodcock: Can we afford it?)
Jul-Aug (Peter Glaser on SPS, NASA reviews ET proposal)
Nov-Dec (Sally Ride: Leadership in Space) - 1988
Jan-Feb (SSI Timescale)
Mar-Apr (COST, an important analysis)
May-Jun (GKO’N Overview Effect , Lunar Systems Study)
Jul-Aug (Space Renaissance, SSI ISU, Composites)
Sept-Oct (Long duration non-Island issues)
Nov-Dec (Lunar oxygen, Congress votes SSI ) - 1989
Jan-Feb (GKO’N on NASA and SPS, NASA Mars)
Mar-Apr (Soviet SSI, Space Debris)
May-Jun (Mission, Research update)
Jul-Aug (9th conference, letter from President Bush, sr)
Sept-Oct (Debris cleanup)
Nov-Dec (NASA Lunar Report 101652 and SPS) - 1990
Jan-Feb (GKO’N Rational Space Program)
Mar-Apr (Iron from Lunar Ilmenite)
May-Jun (Special Research Update Special)
Jul-Aug (Filin on Soviet Safety, Toronto ISU)
Sept-Oct (Solar Concentrator of Lunar Simulant)
Nov-Dec (SSI Lunar Prospector Probe Timeline) - 1991
Jan-Feb (Glaser joins Board, NASA/DOE select SSI)
Mar-Apr (SSI and Air Force propose ET reclamation) - 1992
Jan-Feb (Lunar Solar, 3d Printing)
Mar-Apr (Dyson on Apollo, Delta Clipper)
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May-June (Gerard K. O’Neill, A Tribute. Gerard K. O’Neill, a challenging article )
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Jul-Aug (Small projects could be big, Lunar magnetism)
Sept-Oct (SSI SPS ISU Japan, Space Matrix)
Nov-Dec (Lightcraft) - 1993
Jan-Feb (SA George Gallop polls SSI)
Mar-Apr (SA Peter Glaser and GKO’N on SPS)
May-Jun (SSI Conference XI Summary)
Jul-Aug (Electrolytic Processing Lunar Materials)
Sept-Oct (Lunar glass-glass joining, Lightcraft update)
Nov-Dec ( That Famous Question, 3d Printing, DC-X) - 1994
Jan-Feb (Low Mass SPS, DoD/NASA GKO’N Clementine Probe)
Mar-Apr (Ted Hall on Artificial Gravity and Motion, Clementine)
May-Jun (Lunar concrete, SSI SPS Report, Space Agriculture)
Jul-Aug (Waveguide Solar Lunar Processing, Wm Brown demo)
Sep-Oct (Dyson wins Fermi Award, Brown SPS Power Beaming)
Nov-Dec (Brown IEEE Pioneer Award, Microwave Launches) - 1995
Jan-Feb (Friedman joins SSI, expands SSI to NEOs)
Apr-May-Jun (3 GKO’N articles, Air Spike Project)
Jul-Aug-Sep (12th Conference, SPS Disc/Film, DCX)
Oct-Nov-Dec (SSI Research, GKO’N, ARPA Space VR) - 1996
Q1 (Slingatron Launcher, Commercialization of SPS)
