As an aid to researchers, the Space Studies Institute is proud to release the texts of our member newsletters.
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 will be posting issues in order of publication, however it seems that we may not have a complete set. If a list for a year has holes and you have a copy in your collection that will help fill in any gaps, please contact us so we can arrange to add the content to the public archive. Your originals will be treated with great care and returned upon request.
Mass Driver researchers take note that nearly every issue contains data for you. And here’s a tip: In the older newsletters the Mass Driver projects were labeled “mass-driver” with the hyphen, so when you use the site search feature try using the hyphenated version and you may find more references.
This is an ongoing project, so please check back often to see more years being added.
- 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)
Looks like you might be missing 1983, Q4. That’s Vol IX, Issue 4. I happen to have this. Let me know where I can send it for you.
Thanks Mike! We received the Q4 1983, the July-August 1984 and the March-April 1985. Scanned and transcribed and now filling in those blanks. I really liked the Q4 1983 President’s Column where GKO’N talked about working with Disney on the EPCOT Horizons “ride”, seeing the Imagineerings so close to The Vision has always been neat for SSI members and to read of the background made it even better. (There’s a guy on eBay who sells a dvd of the full ride including the Colony ending.).
The July-August 84’s VP Column and the “Getting Practical About Space” GEOSTAR Guest Column made me grab another cup of coffee and keep typing instead of going to bed early, and that mention in the March-April 85 UPDATE of the Soviet Solar Power Satellites made me wonder what – and who – would be powering the world now if the CCCP hadn’t fallen just a few years later.
Correct things in the minds of good people eventually come around, maybe with the push of many citizen voices the U.S. or a friendly will ‘see the light’ of SPS before it’s far too late. There are many SPS articles in the newsletters, and we’ll be adding more SPS details to SSI.org site through 2016.
Thanks again, Mike. Your Space Settlement website and the excellent Space Settlement FAQ remain classic go-to references and it’s great to have them archived by the NSS (http://www.nss.org/settlement/MikeCombs/ ).
Let’s see what we can do to have it updated with the Move-In date of an Island ;-).
SSI Senior Associate Tom Jolly has filled in a bunch of holes in the SSI Update archive. We just received 2 1991’s, 4 1994’s, 3 1995’s and 1 each of 1997, ’98 and ’99.
Thanks Tom! We’ll get to converting and posting these as soon as we can!
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