Lunar Boom Town/External links
External links
[edit | edit source]- http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/
- http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Associ/Mars/default.htm
- Maybe some of our peer teams local designs would be eligible for this NASA design competition or maybe just practice here locally and then go compete globally?
- International Space Settlement Design Competition
- http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol3/toc.html
- The Political Economy of Very Large Space Projects
- An animated demonstration of a proposal
- Building a base on the Moon
Useful open/free design tools
[edit | edit source]- Dia is free software for creating diagrams. It may be useful for process flow and instrumentation diagrams.
- Art of Illusion is a free 3D Modeling and Rendering environment incredibly useful for design visualization.
- Blender is also a 3D Modeling and Rendering environment augmented with exellent import/export data formats involving game development tools and environments.
U.S.G.S. Planetary Data System - Check licensing constraints before using. Summarize here for others. http://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/maps.html
Background information
[edit | edit source]- Lunar and Martian dust is a potential problem. [1]
- Possible solution for Lunar and Martian dust.[2]
- TANSTAFL Lunar vacuum will be compromised for chip making, requiring vacuum pumping. [3]
- http://www.kathryncramer.com/lunar_development/2004/11/maximizing_food.html
- NASA Asteroid Surveys I feel safer already. Might be a motherlode providing supplies to those asteroid miners!
- http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Energy_storage
- http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Networked_learning
- http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Marketing_Strategy
- Popular Mechanics Series on NASA's Planned Lunar Base[4]
Applicable Google discussion groups
[edit | edit source]- sci.space.policy
- sci.space.history
- sci.space.tech
Software
[edit | edit source]Related news
[edit | edit source]- April 2008 Minerals mapped on Lunar Surface