Tag: Space Studies Institute
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The safest bet for space settlers? Would you believe it’s inside Mars’ moon Deimos?
Jim Logan, a former NASA flight surgeon who is the co-founder of the Space Enterprise Institute, lays out his plan for putting a space settlement inside the Martian moon Deimos. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) The smaller of Mars’ two moons, Deimos, was named after the Greek god of terror — but the way former…
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After 50 years, space settlement experts update their vision for off-planet outposts
The Gateway Foundation’s Von Braun Rotating Space Station would take advantage of a ring structure to create artificial gravity. (Gateway Foundation Illustration) Fifty years ago, a Princeton physicist named Gerard O’Neill asked his students to help him come up with a plan for setting up settlements in space. Just a few years later, O’Neill published…