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Colonization of space has been an issue of spaceflight well before the first human extraterrestrial landings included the assembly of national flags on the Moon.Despite a common practice of colonialism, marking territorial claims, these flags were not to symbolize any such claims, which were rejected and banned by the ratification of the Outer Space Treaty (1967).
Space and survival is the idea that the long-term survival of the human species and technological civilization requires the building of a spacefaring civilization that utilizes the resources of outer space, [1] and that not doing this might lead to human extinction. A related observation is that the window of opportunity for doing this may be ...
The main motivation behind this is the belief that the colonization of Mars allows humanity to become multiplanetary and therefore secures the long-term survival of the human species in case of Earth being rid of human life. [2] Colonization is to be achieved via the development and use of reusable and mass-produced super heavy-lift launch ...
Three experts told Insider about the scientific, medical, and ethical challenges of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos' ambitions to colonize space
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 ...
The book is also notable for including a publication of Robert Zubrin's Mars Direct mission architecture (first formulated in 1990), which was soon expanded into a book of its own, The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, and which provided the impetus for the founding of the Mars Society. [2]
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]
One of the primary arguments for space colonization is to ensure the long-term survival of the human species. In the event of worldwide artificial or natural disaster a space colony would allow the human species to continue on. [5] Michael Griffin, the NASA administrator in 2006, stated the case as follows: