The High Frontier: Human Colonies in SpaceMonograph on future habitation and human settlement in outer space - describes possible habitats for humanity in space colonys, and includes the transcript of a USA congressional hearing on "aerospace technology and national needs". Illustrations and references. |
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... diameter of four miles , a length of twenty miles , and a total land area of five hundred square miles , supporting a population of several million people . The largest communities that could be built , within the limits of ordinary ...
... diameter of four miles , a length of twenty miles , and a total land area of five hundred square miles , supporting a population of several million people . The largest communities that could be built , within the limits of ordinary ...
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... diameter , with a wall thickness of about 1.3 tons per square meter . That wall would reduce the intensity of cosmic - ray heavy primary particles by so large a factor that during the six - year construction period workers who stayed ...
... diameter , with a wall thickness of about 1.3 tons per square meter . That wall would reduce the intensity of cosmic - ray heavy primary particles by so large a factor that during the six - year construction period workers who stayed ...
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... diameter , located a few kilometers from the community . It would require only a single receiver system , which could easily be updated to remain at the summit of the electronic art as the years of search go on . The problem of noise ...
... diameter , located a few kilometers from the community . It would require only a single receiver system , which could easily be updated to remain at the summit of the electronic art as the years of search go on . The problem of noise ...
Contents
A LETTER FROM SPACE | 11 |
THE PLANETARY | 34 |
ISLANDS IN SPACE | 61 |
Copyright | |
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