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Space colonization is the process of establishing human settlements beyond Earth for prestige, commercial or strategic benefit, [3] in contrast to space exploration for scientific benefit. Colonialism in this sense is multi-dimensional, including the exploitation of labor, resources and rights.
A Stanford torus interior (cutaway view) Interior view of a large scale O'Neill cylinder, showing alternating land and window stripes. A space settlement (also called a space habitat, space stead, space city or space colony) is a settlement in outer space, sustaining more extensively habitation facilities in space than a general space station or spacecraft.
An O'Neill cylinder (also called an O'Neill colony) is a space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his 1976 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. [1] O'Neill proposed the colonization of space for the 21st century, using materials extracted from the Moon and later from asteroids. [2]
A growing number of scientists think human colonization of the solar system is inevitable. It's not clear when we'll see humans walking around on the moon or Mars, but it's coming, and it's going ...
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The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space is a 1976 book by Gerard K. O'Neill, a road map for what the United States might do in outer space after the Apollo program, the drive to place a human on the Moon and beyond.
Space colonization, also called space settlement and space humanization, would be the permanent autonomous (self-sufficient) human habitation of locations outside Earth, especially of natural satellites or planets such as the Moon or Mars, using significant amounts of in-situ resource utilization.
The colonization of Titan is not likely to happen for many decades or even within the current century. NASA is focused on the moon and Mars as destinations to send astronauts.