Chats and Forums
Artemis Project and Moon Society Meeting Server, Artemis Project General Mailing List, Dave Dietzler's BBS, Frontier Files Online ;; Opening the Space Frontie, HobbySpace, Moon Society Yahoo group, RocketForge :: A Blog for the Space Age, Space Sciences -- HabitableZone, Space-architecture list, Space-elevator forum
Essays and Manifestos
A Million Reasons to Go To Space, Bioterrorism May Spur Space Colonies, Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking, Foreign Affairs: A Hopeful Future for Mankind, Letters from the National Space Society, National Space Society: Statement of Philosophy, NSS Policy Committee: Position Statements and Aler, Our Future in the Cosmos, Sagan's rationale for human spaceflight - The, Solar Power Satellites
Life Support
ARC ALS Analysis Team, Biosphere 2 Center, International Space Exploration & Colonization, NC-State NSCORT, USU Crop Physiology Lab
Living Universe Foundation
Distant Star, Living Universe Foundation, Living Universe Foundation (Germany) e.V., LUF Team discussion group, LUF Web Search, Marshall T. Savage - An Exponentialist Assessment
Magazines and E-zines
Ad Astra, Artemis Magazine, Frontier Theory, L5 News, Lunar Base Quarterly, Moon Miners' Manifesto, Space Age Publishing Company, Space Colonization: A Home for the Dreamers Among , The Spacefaring Web
Mars
Conferences and Meetings, Conquering Mars, Human Habitats at Mars: Defending Against Contamin, Mars Colonization, Mars Colony - sponsored by the Martian Federation, Mars or Bust!, MarsHome.org, Martian Soil, Martian Time, New Mars: A Journal of the Martian Frontier, The Case for Mars
Moon
International Lunar Exploration Working Group, Jerry Bull and the Space Rodent Rangers, Lunar Base Design Workshop, Lunar Explorers Society, Lunar Hotel Design Plan, Lunar Reclamation Society, Inc., Lunar Republic : Official Website Of The Moon, Lunar Research Institute, Lunar robotics competition, Lunar Settlement Initiative
Projects and Companies
1000 Planets Inc., Alliance to Rescue Civilization, Blue Origin, Cygo's Space Initiative, Institute for Scientific Research, Inc. - Space El, Kennedy II Lunar Exploration Project (K2LX), Lifeboat Foundation, LiftPort - The Space Elevator Company, Orbital Development, The Colony Fund
Terraforming
Mars, Terraforming, Terraforming, Terraforming - Michael Bastion, The Terraforming Information Pages
Artificial Gravity
Articles on rotating structures by Ted Hall, with links to dissertation, conference papers, and software.
Beanstalk elevator
"Virtual beanstalk" amateur design group for a (small scale) space elevator.
Centripetal Vivarium Space Habitats
Advocates, as preferable to lunar colonisation or terraforming, the construction of huge manufactured living spaces that can be spun to create gravitational effects.
Critical Path Roadmap
NASA analysis of critical research and development needs for human exploration and settlement of space.
DaedalusaL4 Guide
Detailed design study for a 10,000 person space settlement in Earth orbit, using current technology. 2000 Grand Prize Winner in Space Settlement Design Contest.
Denie's Off World Training
Bodybuilding, weight training, and related matters, with this section covering the problems and need for resistance machine activities in zero-g.
Foundation Future 25
Emerging platform for long-term thinking, acting and growth. Supporting space colonization and the development of life and humanity on earth earth, the planets and in the universe.
Galleria 2433
Ideas for colonizing the moon, Mars, the asteroid belt and the galaxy.
International Space Settlement Design Competition
An annual event in which teams of high school students prepare designs for cities in space.
Interstellar Missions
News of breakthroughs in propulsion physics and the search for extra-solar planets that will enable missions beyond the solar system.
Island One Society
Propulsion systems, business ideas, archives of space meetings and journals, and political advocacy for the space frontier.
Laying the Foundation for Space Solar Power: (2001
National Research Council study of NASA's late 1990's space solar power efforts.
Living on Green Islands in Space
Information about O'Neill-type orbiting habitats and why we may want to built them.
NASA Ames - Space Settlement Contests
Annual design contest for school-age kids, grades 6-12. Links to winning designs.
National Space Society Roadmap for the Settlement
List of Milestones and Barriers to Space Settlement
Notable Nearby Stars
Information about nearby star systems out to 65 light years.
Office of Space Commercialization
US Government office - studies on market for space tourism, satellite industry, and other aspects of space development.
Oregon L5 Society
Oregon chapter of the National Space Society; many studies and reports on in-situ resource utilization and related aspects of space development.
PERMANENT
Rapid development of space using material from asteroids near Earth and from the Moon.
Space Colonies
Full text of the 1977 CoEvolution book _Space Colonies_, which is now out of print.
Space Elevator Reference
Scientific, engineering, economic and policy challenges inherent in constructing the solar systems first space elevator.
Space Settlement
Discusses the space settlement proposals of Gerard K. O'Neill, as popularized in his book "The High Frontier". Features pictures and a FAQ.
Space Settlement
NASA research office offering introduction to the subject with studies, on-line books, links and a student contest.
Space Settlement Initiative
A proposal to grant ownership of land on the moon and Mars to companies that establish settlements and agree to sell passage to anyone willing to pay a fair price.
Space Solar Power at NASA
design and development of solar power satellites and solar power systems for use in space.
Space Solar Power Monitor
News, discussion, links to latest information on SSP.
Space Solar Power Workshop
Discussion of the energy path for space development.
Space Studies Institute
The organization founded by Gerard O'Neill, with detailed information about his space settlement proposals.
SpaceArchitect.org
official website of an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics subcommittee on aerospace architecture comprising architects and associated professionals who organize conference papers, develop educational tools, collaborate on design projects and promote related research in the field of aerospace architecture in space and on Earth.
The Case for Space
Articles and short stories by Robert Weidner, on various roads to space colonization.
The Interstellar Society
Newsletters, discussions and design concepts for interstellar exploration of space offered by a non-profit organization.
The Preparation
Links between nanotechnology and space colonization; essays on the transhuman future.
The Space Frontier Foundation
Articles, discussion sites, meetings, and government advocacy dedicated to opening the space frontier as rapidly as possible.
The Space Settlement Institute
A non-profit association founded to help promote space colonization; emphasis on property rights law.
The Space Settlers' Society
contacts and articles on European space advocacy, ramjets, and space tourism.
URANOS: Club for Expansion of Civilization into Sp
A group of people, mainly Poles or of Polish origin, who believe that expansion into space is a prerequisite for further development of our civilization. An English version of the site is maintained.