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Space habitat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A space habitat, also called space colony or orbital colony, is a space station intended as a permanent settlement rather than as a simple waystation or other specialized facility. Space habitats are likely to be less affected by disasters that damage the Earth, such as overpopulation, or ocean strikes by large bolides (ie meteorites, etc). The most interesting result of the studies was the discovery that large space habitats are effectively shielded by their structure and air, which easily exceeds the two meters of steel needed. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Space_habitat   (2387 words)

Space Future - Space Habitat And because space is almost limitless humans are going to live there in vast numbers in the future - in other words, it will become a whole new habitat. At that time space activities will involve almost every industry - not just the aerospace industry but construction and interior design, catering and drinks, fashion and music, sports and entertainment, advertising and law, to name just a few. Living in space for long periods of time, or even permanently, is far more serious a prospect than merely staying for a few days or weeks. www.spacefuture.com /habitat/habitat.shtml   (299 words)

The Space Settlement FAQ by Mike Combs Space settlement is the concept of colonizing space by using extraterrestrial resources to construct artificial, closed-ecology habitats in orbit. Habitats which floated on the surface of the oceans could avoid these kinds of difficulties, and may be much easier to build and to access than habitats on the ocean floor. With the subsequent discovery by the Lunar Prospector space probe of ices frozen in permanently shadowed craters at the poles of the moon, we may not necessarily have to import Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Carbon from the Earth as was originally thought. members.aol.com /oscarcombs/spacsetl.htm   (7816 words)

WET-LAUNCH OF PREFAB HABITAT MODULES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The toroidal space habitat would be built and assembled first on the ground in the form of the dual purpose modules, checked out, then dissassembled and launched a segment at a time to the orbital site. Such a research semi-closed ecosystem habitat would pave the way for long-term homes for space manufacturing employees and their families, resort hotels, and prove out the basic artificial gravity space habitat concept for possible use in a massive ring of space habitats in the Clarke Belt. Prefabrication and testing of the toroidal space habitat while it is on the ground, then effectively transfering it module by module to docked reassembly in orbit, eliminates nearly all of the dangerous, expensive time-consuming manned free-fall orbital constuction time. home.earthlink.net /~jedcline/wlhm.html   (2676 words)

Wikinfo | Habitat A biome is the set of flora and fauna which live in a habitat and occupy a certain topography. A space habitat is a self-contained environment supporting some number of people in the vacuum of space in a permanent way. Habitat is also the name of a chain of furniture stores founded in the 1960s by Terence Conran. www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=habitat   (211 words)

Space Settlement These orbital space colonies could be wonderful places to live; about the size of a California beach town and endowed with weightless recreation, fantastic views, freedom, elbow-room in spades, and great wealth. Space playgound a zero-g playground designed by four, five, and six year olds at the Santa Cruz Children's School. Freeluna.com dedicated to the proposition that the colonization of outer space is critical for the long term survival of the human species, and that colonization of the moon and the exploitation of the moon's natural resources is one of the best first steps in that incredible journey off planet. www.nas.nasa.gov /About/Education/SpaceSettlement/index.html   (1035 words)

Howstuffworks "How Inflatable Spacecraft Will Work" The use of space inflatables won't be limited to unmanned spacecraft and telescopes. The first of these inflatable space habitats, called TransHab, is already in development and could become the living quarters for the International Space Station (ISS) as soon as 2005. Space inflatables, like the TransHab, will be used as living quarters for space travelers. science.howstuffworks.com /inflatable-spacecraft2.htm   (440 words)

Space Settlement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Space settlement is a unique concept for colonization beyond the Earth. While most thinking regarding the expansion of the human race outward into space has focused on the colonization of the surfaces of other planets, the space settlement concept suggests that planetary surfaces may not be the best location for extraterrestrial colonies. Most of the concepts on this webpage and in the Space Settlement FAQ are from "The High Frontier" by Gerard K. O'Neill, which is available from the Space Studies Institute. members.aol.com /oscarcombs/settle.htm   (272 words)

SPACE MEDIA DELIVERS AND RETURNS SPACE STATION PAYLOADS FOR LEGO, POPULAR MECHANICS Space Media provided the LEGO Company and Popular Mechanics a commercial space services package encompassing payload preparation, launch to the ISS, on-orbit payload procedures (including photographic documentation), and return flight. Space Media's STARS Academy global education program (www.starsacademy.com) developed this experiment, and the Challenger Center for Space Science Education (www.challenger.org) contributed educational materials for it. Space Media, Inc., was created in January 2000 to develop multimedia business for the Enterprise commercial space station habitat project, a joint endeavor of SPACEHAB and Energia. www.spacehab.com /news/2001/01_05_30.htm   (808 words)

:: NASA Quest > Space ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Her insight for her space mission has been extremely helpful to me and will allow me to make some personal preferences and choices when I finally do get to fly in space. They have some shrimp outside the habitat that tend to peck on the outside and they do that all night and it kind of sounds like rice crisp east in your bowl every morning and we get to sleep with that when we go to bed. As Emma mentioned before, all the menu we have for this mission is the remains of a Space Station crew member and his menu choices that we couldn't use because of the fact we're now only sending two astronauts and cosmonauts to the Space Station at a time. quest.arc.nasa.gov /projects/space/aquarius/2003/transcript/june03.html   (7352 words)

Bernal Sphere Space Colony Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The habitat design shown here, made visual by NASA artist R. Guidice, is known as a "Bernal Sphere." Houses, lawns, trees, people, and all – a community of some 10,000 people – rest upon the interior surface of a large sphere, nearly a mile in circumference. In the 1976 NASA Study on Space Manufacuring, habitats of this kind, efficient in their use of materials and structurally strong, are thought of as possible next steps beyond earlier, transitional structures of a more utilitarian design. The economics of space manufacturing appear to motivate the provision of attractive living areas of this kind relatively early in the program, rather than coming for short tours of duty at high cost for transportation. www.l5news.org /bernalspheredetail.htm   (912 words)

Cosmic Log: March 14-20, 2004 - Cosmic Log - MSNBC.com Figuring out how to make life more livable for space exploration is her passion, and her place among the crew at the Mars Desert Research Station is as close as she can come to the real thing, at least for now. And even though space rocks like 2004 FH are thought to pass as close every couple of years or so, it's only been in the past few years that projects like LINEAR have been methodically scanning the sky for near-Earth objects. Meanwhile, Space Adventures, the travel firm that helped send two millionaires to the international space station in 2001 and 2002, is expected to reveal later this month who could be the next paying passenger to take a trip to the station on a Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft. www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4528148   (3709 words)

Space Habitat - Living in Space Living in space for longer periods like a few months or permanently, is more complex, as you have to take precautions against the long-term effects of zero-G and cosmic rays. Living in space for just a few days as a tourist you won't have to worry about most of this. This is done with a variety of equipment, such as "exercise-trousers" which have strong elastic between the ankles and the waist which the leg muscles have to stretch, and which puts pressure on the bones and joints. www.spacefuture.com /habitat/living.shtml   (740 words)

The Space Review: Thinking big at Bigelow Aerospace The new America’s Space Prize is an audacious way to jumpstart the development of the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) capabilities that NASA has been seeking, but doing it fast and cheap. By pledging up to $500 million to research inflatable habitat design, Bigelow is making space stations a lot cheaper than what NASA currently spends, as well as shaking up the space world in yet another way. The America’s Space Prize is likely to be followed by $200 million in conditional purchase agreements for six flights and options for another 24 flights at $800 million. www.thespacereview.com /article/292/1   (1233 words)

ESA Portal - Life in Space - First Habitat Design Workshop: Call for applicants This means that those who will be involved in this next stage of space exploration are just beginning their careers in the space sector or still studying at school or university. Habitat Design Workshop 2005 is one of the first steps towards this goal. The organisation team, ranging from experts in space science to industrial design to architecture, will guide participants through a programme of preparatory work, lectures, discussion sessions and design exercises with the goal of creating design concepts for habitats to be included in human missions to the Moon, Mars and Phobos. www.esa.int /esaCP/SEM8BBD3M5E_Life_0.html   (638 words)

Space Coast Habitat for Humanity - Titusville, Florida Habitat invites people from all walks of life to work together in partnership to help build houses with families in need. Habitat has built and renovated more than 160,000 houses around the world, providing some 800,000 people with safe, decent, affordable housing. By bringing the strengths of both affiliates together it is believed the new affiliate HFHBC will be more accessible to the general public, thus increasing the organizations identity within the community to increase and organize its volunteer base and resource development strategies. www.nbbd.com /npr/habitat   (424 words)

Space Habitat, Assembly and Repair Center - Abstract Integrated Space Systems (ISS) has taken on the task of designing a Space Habitat, Assembly and Repair Center (SHARC) in Low Earth Orbit to meet the future needs of the space program. We also considered utilizing the Space Station Freedom as a habitation depot for the workers at SHARC but calculations showed that the synodic period of the two facilities was 14.5 days. The space to ground system will consist of two virtual channels operating at a data rate of 150 Mbps. www.tsgc.utexas.edu /archive/design/space.html   (1640 words)

Space Studies Institute » The Don Davis “High Frontier” Artshow Noted space artist Don Davis did all the illustrations in the first and second editions of “The High Frontier. Modular habitat using shuttle external tank, for early rapid buildup of space manufacturing. To propose that a group of families here on the Earth’s surface might build their own space craft to fly them to the Asteroid Belt would be laughable. ssi.org /?page_id=18   (1012 words)

Space Colony Jigsaw The Paras West homepage provides an interesting twist to space colonization with the use of dolphins in their colony to aid in human healing and therapy. The Russain space station Mir homepage is an excellent resource for current technology and pictures of the space station. The NASA space educators handbook homepage has a link to the space stations in science fiction homepage which will be used to distinguish fact from fiction in current technology. edweb.sdsu.edu /courses/EDTEC596/Units/Space/colonylesn.596   (991 words)

USGS TerraWeb: Open Space Changes in Yavapai and Southern Mohave Counties, Arizona The main goal of the project was to detect, map, and analyze the amount of change in open space between 1984 and 1997 within the study area and document where these changes have occurred in order to effectively evaluate change in big game habitat. The maps for elk, mule deer, and white-tailed deer were for both summer and winter habitats, while the bighorn sheep and pronghorn antelope were a single map. The habitat maps show the distribution of the particular ungulate by a density rating, which are not the same for each species. terraweb.wr.usgs.gov /projects/OpenSpaces   (1410 words)

Habitat and Open Space - Quiet Revolution in San Diego Thus the battles across the country between the lovers of wildlife who want more habitat preserved, and the landowners who may love wildlife just as much, but who also want to make a few dollars on their investment. So a deal is made: The landowner develops the isolated habitat, and in return, he must buy other habitat (usually three times more than the land he is developing) to become part of a larger regional system nearby. Some are actually buying more of it because they now know that open space and habitat is a good investment. www.californiaopenspace.com /habitat_and_open_space.htm   (802 words)

Orbital Space Settlement This presents the Lewis One space settlement design intended to improve on the 10,000 inhabitant designs of the mid-70s. Space Station Threshold A community driven jumping off point for reaching space. Bigelow Aerospace, Inc. is developing a private, human-rated space station and offers a $50 million prize for demonstration of a launch vehicle that can get there. space.alglobus.net   (1807 words)

Space colonization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Building colonies in space will require people, food, construction materials, energy, transportation, communications, life support, simulated gravity (using steady circular rotation), and radiation protection. The Space Settlement Institute is searching for ways to make space colonization happen in our lifetimes. Space Colony ARK, a fictional space colony in the Sonic the Hedgehog series and TV show, Sonic X en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Space_colonization   (4353 words)

SPACE.com -- Private Space Habitat Could Launch by 2010 SAN JOSE, Calif.—If the planned Jan. 30 launch of Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis 2 space module on a Russian Dnepr rocket is successful, Las Vegas entrepreneur Robert Bigelow plans to send a human-rated habitat into orbit in either the second half of 2009 or the first half of 2010. At a luncheon speech today in San Jose, Calif., at the AIAA Space 2006 Symposium, Bigelow said his third module, dubbed Sundancer, would have a mass of 8,618.4 kilograms and be equipped with life support systems, attitude control, three windows, on-orbit maneuverability, reboost and de-orbit capability. Bigelow said that while Sundancer will be a scale model of the large, human-rated habitat he eventually plans to launch into orbit, it will nonetheless have 180 cubic meters of habitable space. www.space.com /news/060921_bigelow_plans.html   (614 words)

SPACE.com -- Bigelow Aerospace to Tackle Inflatable Space Habitats Company is working toward in-space testing of prototype inflatable structure to establish habitable volume in Earth orbit. Making "space available" is at the heart of the global travel, tourist and lodging industry. Bigelows plan is to establish a habitable commercial space station for research, manufacturing, entertainment and other uses. www.space.com /news/businessmonday_040524.html   (1231 words)

The Hindu : Kalam dreams of space habitat The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, came back `home' today, to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota, and inspected the new facilities at the spaceport, including the second launch pad, expected to be inaugurated in the near future. By 2021, he expects ISRO to have a habitat for human beings in space. Past and current senior officials of the space establishment, including the former Chairman and MP, Kasturirangan, and the Director, SDSC, K. Narayana, received the country's First Citizen. www.hindu.com /2003/10/11/stories/2003101102961200.htm   (624 words)

The Space Fellowship Develop an affordable and flexible space complex architecture that can be adapted for any manned or unmanned mission requiring a large pressurized volume. America’s political passion for space is arguably indifferent and considering such laws as the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), the regulatory environment is somewhat less than appealing. Our goal is to get humanity into space so we can experiment, toy with ideas, try new and different things, and eventually make that miraculous mistake leading to a discovery that will change life forever. www.spacefellowship.com /News/?p=1596   (1747 words)

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