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	The Space Frontier Foundation - http://www.space-frontier.org Articles, discussion sites, meetings, and government advocacy dedicated to opening the space frontier as rapidly as possible.
	Space Settlement - National Space Society - http://www.nss.org/settlement/ Collection of essays, articles, studies, and other reference materials on all aspects of colonizing and settling space.
	PERMANENT - http://www.permanent.com/ Rapid development of space using material from asteroids near Earth and from the Moon.
	Space Studies Institute - http://www.ssi.org The organization founded by Gerard O'Neill, with detailed information about his space settlement proposals.
	Space Settlement - http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/ NASA research office offering introduction to the subject with studies, on-line books, links and a student contest.

	National Space Society Roadmap for the Settlement of Space - http://www.nss.org/community/roadmap/ List of Milestones and Barriers to Space Settlement
	The Apollo Society - http://apollo-society.org/ Organization dedicated to advance space exploration and the establishment of human communities beyond Earth.
	Bioastronautics Roadmap at NASA - http://bioastroroadmap.nasa.gov/index.jsp NASA analysis of critical research and development issues, particularly relating to medical needs, for human exploration and settlement of space; focus on space station, Moon, and Mars mission concepts.
	Notable Nearby Stars - http://solstation.com/stars.htm Information about nearby star systems out to 65 light years.
	Space Colony Artwork 1970s - http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/70sArt/art.html A collection of images from early NASA work on large-scale space habitats.

	Astrosociology.com - http://www.astrosociology.com/ Study of sociological aspects of space exploration and settlement.
	Space Settlement Initiative - http://spacesettlement.org/ 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.
	International Space Settlement Design Competition - http://spaceset.org/ An annual event in which teams of high school students prepare designs for cities in space.
	Island One Society - http://www.islandone.org Propulsion systems, business ideas, archives of space meetings and journals, and political advocacy for the space frontier.
	Oregon L5 Society - http://www.oregonl5.org/ Oregon chapter of the National Space Society; many studies and reports on in-situ resource utilization and related aspects of space development.

	DaedalusaL4 Guide - http://www.daedalusal4.utvinternet.co.uk/ 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.
	The Space Settlement Institute - http://www.space-settlement-institute.org A non-profit association founded to help promote space colonization; emphasis on property rights law.
	SpaceArchitect.org - http://www.spacearchitect.org/ AIAA subcommittee on aerospace architecture in space and on Earth.
	Space Settlement - Colonizing the Cosmos - http://space.alglobus.net/ Al Globus' studies, reviews, and links on the subject of O'Neill-style space settlements.
	Space Solar Power Workshop - http://www.sspi.gatech.edu/ Discussion of the energy path for space development.

	Space Elevator Reference - http://www.spaceelevator.com/ Scientific, engineering, economic and policy challenges inherent in constructing the solar systems first space elevator.
	Space Settlement - http://members.aol.com/oscarcombs/settle.htm Discusses the space settlement proposals of Gerard K. O'Neill, as popularized in his book "The High Frontier". Features pictures and a FAQ.
	Beanstalk elevator - http://members.aol.com/beanstalkr/project/ "Virtual beanstalk" amateur design group for a (small scale) space elevator.
	The Space Flag - http://www.spaceflag.com/ A flag designed to be flown by supporters of space colonization.
	NASA Ames - Space Settlement Contests - http://www.belmont.k12.ca.us/ralston/programs/itech/SpaceSettlement/Contest/ Annual design contest for school-age kids, grades 6-12. Links to winning designs.

	The Space Settlers' Society - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy-nimmo/Webpage2a.htm contacts and articles on European space advocacy, ramjets, and space tourism.
	Space Colonies - http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/CoEvolutionBook/ Full text of the 1977 CoEvolution book _Space Colonies_, which is now out of print.
	Space Colony Terra Nova: Beyond 2001 - http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/8434/spacecol.htm Full design from the first place winner (Individual grade 10-12) in the 1997 NASA-Ames Space Settlement Design Contest
	Space Solar Power Monitor - http://www.wronkiewicz.net/ssp/ News, discussion, links to latest information on SSP.
	Artificial Gravity - http://www.artificial-gravity.com/ Articles on rotating structures by Ted Hall, with links to dissertation, conference papers, and software.

	Interstellar Missions - http://www.interstellarmissions.com News of breakthroughs in propulsion physics and the search for extra-solar planets that will enable missions beyond the solar system.
	Starships and Space Colonies - http://website.lineone.net/~geowood/ Technology and engineering discussion of possible orbital space colonies designs.
	L5: First City In Space - http://www.imax.com/films/now_playing/L5.html IMAX 3D film (1996) on how humans may live and travel in our solar system a century from now.
	Aceize - Space Colonization Research - http://www.aceize.com Articles on technologies and science for human space colonization.
	Galleria 2433 - http://interzone.com/~cheung/Gallery.dir/pg.gallery3.html Ideas for colonizing the moon, Mars, the asteroid belt and the galaxy.

	Living on Green Islands in Space - http://www.dse.nl/~hkl/e_space.htm Information about O'Neill-type orbiting habitats and why we may want to built them.
	Foundation Future 25 - http://future25.org 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.
	Office of Space Commercialization - http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/space/ US Government office - studies on market for space tourism, satellite industry, and other aspects of space development.
	Inter PlaNetary Internet - http://www.ipnsig.org/ Internet Society special interest group focused on deep space, long time-lag communications.
	Denie's Off World Training - http://community.webtv.net/Denlen/OFFWORLDTRAINING Bodybuilding, weight training, and related matters, with this section covering the problems and need for resistance machine activities in zero-g.

	The Case for Space - http://www.geocities.com/weidner0304/ Articles and short stories by Robert Weidner, on various roads to space colonization.
	Laying the Foundation for Space Solar Power: (2001) - http://www.nap.edu/books/0309075971/html/ National Research Council study of NASA's late 1990's space solar power efforts.
	AIAA - Space Colonization Technical Committee - http://www.aiaa.org/portal/index.cfm?getcomm=195 Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics formed in 2002, to promote the identification and development of advanced concepts, science, and technology that will support, enhance and enable permanent human presence in space.

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