Moon-Earth: Prospects for a lunar-centric scenario for space development after 2030
- Aeronautics and Aerospace Open Access Journal
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Vidvuds Beldavs, Bernard Foing
Abstract
Gerard K. O’Neill’s idea of large habitats built from outer space resources in his 1974 Physics Today article “The Colonization of Space” resulted in a flurry of speculation and research and development work aimed at use of lunar resources to build large-scale solar-power satellites (SPS) to generate revenue to pay for space colonization.
Keywords
moon, earth, lunar centric, space development