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Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (1927 - 1992) was a U.S. physicist and space pioneer. 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ...
Born in Brooklyn in 1927, he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1950, and received a doctorate in physics from Cornell University in 1954. He joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1954, with which he remained associated until his death in 1992. Dr. O'Neill's early research focused on high-energy particle physics; notably he invented the particle storage ring. Main article: New York City A map of New York City, highlighting Brooklyn. ...
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Cornell University is a private research university located on the East Hill of Ithaca, New York. ...
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Princeton University is a coeducational private university located on an extensive campus in and around suburban Princeton, New Jersey. ...
Particles erupt from the collision point of two relativistic (100 GeV per nucleon) gold ions in the STAR detector of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. ...
While lecturing to a freshman physics class at Princeton University in 1969, O'Neill (an avid pilot and a scientist-astronaut candidate during Apollo) posed the question to his students: "Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?" There are sound reasons why the answer appears to be no. Princeton University is a coeducational private university located on an extensive campus in and around suburban Princeton, New Jersey. ...
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A planet is generally considered to be a relatively large mass of accreted matter in orbit around a star that is not a star itself. ...
A small conference on space colonization was funded by the Stewart Brand's Point Foundation in May 1974. Among the people who attended was Eric Drexler, at the time a freshman at MIT. A highly influential article by O'Neill based on his work and his students, "The Colonization of Space", appeared in a September 1974 issue of Physics Today. A much larger conference on Space Manufacturing Facilities was held in May 1975. Many of the people who became post Apollo era space activists attended. In September 1975 the L5 Society was founded to develop public support for O'Neill's ideas for space colonies. Artists conception of a space habitat called the Stanford torus, by Don Davis Space colonization, also called space settlement and space humanization, is the hypothetical permanent autonomous (self-sufficient) human habitation of locations outside Earth. ...
Stewart Brand speaking September 5, 2004 Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford, Illinois) is an author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly. ...
The Point Foundation was a non-profit organization founded in 1972 by Stewart Brand. ...
K. Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology. ...
Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ...
The original L5 Society logo, currently located at the L5 News archive on the World Wide Web The L5 Society was founded in 1975 by Carolyn and Keith Henson to promote the space colony ideas of Dr. Gerard K. ONeill. ...
In 1977 O'Neill founded the Space Studies Institute at Princeton University, an organization that continues today to fund research in space manufacturing and resources. He also worked on mass drivers for space propulsion, research and design concepts for space stations, Space colonization, solar power satellites, and lunar and asteroid mining. He authored the book "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space" which inspired a generation of space exploration advocates. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...
Cover of procedings for 7th Space Manufacturing conference. ...
A mass driver for lunar launch (artists conception) A mass driver or electromagnetic catapult is a method of spacecraft propulsion that would use a linear motor to accelerate payloads up to high speeds. ...
A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live on in outer space. ...
Artists conception of a space habitat called the Stanford torus, by Don Davis Space colonization, also called space settlement and space humanization, is the hypothetical permanent autonomous (self-sufficient) human habitation of locations outside Earth. ...
A solar power satellite, or SPS, is a proposed satellite built in high Earth orbit that uses microwave power transmission to beam solar power to a very large antenna on Earth where it can be used in place of conventional power sources. ...
One of the supporters of O'Neill's ideas was Rick Tumlinson, who worked under O'Neill at the Space Studies Institute. Tumlinson would later go on to co-found the Space Frontier Foundation in 1988; to this day, the Foundation supports O'Neill's concepts of large-scale space colonization. Rick Tumlinson is the co-founder of the Space Frontier Foundation and a prominent space activist. ...
The Space Frontier Foundation is a small but influential space advocacy organization that promotes increased involvement of the private sector, rather than governments, in the exploration and development of space. ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Gerard K. O'Neill died on 27 April 1992 after a seven year fight against Leukemia. A sample of his ashes were buried in space on April 21, 1997. Leukemia (leukaemia in Commonwealth English) is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal proliferation of blood cells, usually white blood cells (leukocytes). ...
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1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
See also
Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets by John S. Lewis. ...
John S. Lewis is a professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. ...
The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps by Marshall Savage is a book (published in 1992 and reprinted in 1994) that gives a series of concrete stages the author believes will lead to interstellar colonization. ...
Marshall T. Savage is an advocate of space travel who wrote The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps and founded the Living Universe Foundation, which was designed to make plans for stellar exploration over the next 1,000 years. ...
The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must is a nonfiction science book by Robert Zubrin, first published in 1996. ...
Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer and author best known for his advocacy of manned Mars exploration. ...
Engines of Creation (ISBN 0-385-19973-2) is a seminal molecular nanotechnology book written by K. Eric Drexler in 1986. ...
Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of hypothetical molecular nanotechnology. ...
References - O'Neill, Gerard K. (1977). The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space, William Morrow & Company. ISBN 0962237906.
- O'Neill, Gerard K. (1983). The Technology Edge: Opportunities for America in world competition, Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0671554379.
- O'Neill, Gerard K. (1981). 2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future, Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0671447513.
- O'Neill, Gerard K. (1977). Space-Based Manufacturing from Nonterrestrial Materials, Amer Inst of Aeronautics. ISBN 0915928213.
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