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Directory of Contents
- About Space Future
- Archive
- Habitat
- $pace: The Final Financial Frontier
- A Code of Ethics and Standards for Lunar Development and Outer-Space Commerce
- A Code of Ethics for Off-Earth Commerce
- Artificial Gravity and the Architecture of Orbital Habitats
- Artificial-Gravity Swimming-Pool
- Considerations Towards the Legal Framework of Space Tourism
- Decision Points
- Design and Construction of Zero-Gravity Gymnasium
- Elements for a Sustainable Lunar Colony in the South Polar Region
- Equatorial Low Earth Orbit, an ideal orbit for In-Space Construction
- Feasibility of Commercial Resort Hotels in Low Earth Orbit
- From Earth to Mars: A Cooperative Plan
- GEODE - Commercial Space Production Facility
- How the 21st-Century Society Can Sustain the Implementation of the Space Option
- Human factors and Health in Space Tourism
- Implications of a Proposal for Real Property Rights in Outer Space
- Implications of Reduced Launch Costs for Commercial Space Law
- Inhabiting Artificial Gravity
- Legal and Regulatory Issues for Passenger Space Travel
- Legal Considerations for Traffic Systems in Near-Earth Space
- Lunar Ethics and Space Commercialization
- Lunar Real Estate: Buyer, Beware!
- Mex-LunarHab (MLH) - A Mexican Space Habitat Settlement on the Moon
- Mining Economics and Risk-Control in the Development of Near-Earth-Asteroid Resources
- New Credit Tools and Tax Concepts for the Opening of the Space Frontier
- On the Practical and Sporting Aspects of Football in Zero-Gravity
- Orion's Laser: Hunting Space Debris
- Potential Markets Through 2020
- Project and Test Engineering Methodology
- Proposal for a Multilateral Treaty Regarding Jurisdiction and Real Property Rights in Outer Space
- Real Property Rights in Outer Space
- Security Implications of Non-Terrestrial Resource Exploitation
- Some Aspects of Space Navigation Law
- Space Elevators, Space Hotels and Space Tourism
- The Architecture of Artificial Gravity: Theory, Form, and Function in the High Frontier
- The Copernican Evidence - Requirements for a Space Age Philosophy
- The Deimos Water Company
- The Ethical Commercialization of Outer Space
- The Legal Regime for Private Activities in Outer Space
- The Obstacles to Financing New Space Industries
- The Prospects for Space Commerce in the Aftermath of 9-11
- The Regulatory Reform Agenda for the Era of Passenger Space Transportation
- The Space Plane and International Space Law
- The Space Settlement Initiative
- The Status of Astronauts Towards The Second Generation of Space Law
- The Technical and Economic Feasibility of Mining the Near-Earth Asteroids
- Tourism in Low Earth Orbit: The Trigger for Commercial Lunar Development?
- Towards Traffic Control Systems for Near-Earth Space
- Why Implementing the Space Option Is Necessary for Society
- Zero-Gravity Sports Centers
- Civil Engineering's New Frontier
- Power
- A Few Things You Occasionally Wanted To Know About Wireless Power Transmission
- A Fresh Look at Space Solar Power: New Architectures, Concepts and Technologies
- An Approach to Develop Space Solar Power as a New Energy System for Developinging Countries
- An Equatorial SPS Pilot Plant
- An evolutionary satellite power system for International demonstration in developing nations
- Beam It Down: How the New Satellites Can Power the World
- Benefits of International Cooperation in a Low Equatorial Orbit SPS Pilot Plant Demonstrator Project
- Conceptual Study of A Solar Power Satellite, SPS 2000
- Design Considerations for the
- Development of a Functional System Model of the Solar Power Satellite, SPS2000
- Early Commercial Demonstration of Space Solar Power Using Ultra-Lightweight Arrays
- Equatorial Cooperation for SPS 2000 Rectennas
- Evaluation and Comparison of Space Solar Power Concepts
- Future Demand for Microwave Power from Space in China and Indonesia
- Global Cooperation for an Equatorial SPS Pilot Plant
- Japan - The 21st Century's Global Energy Supplier?
- Japanese perspective on power from space for earth
- Low Mass Solar Power Satellites Built From Terrestrial or Lunar Materials
- Power From Space for the Next Century
- Public Attitudes towards Space Solar Power
- Solar Power Satellites: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
- SPS 2000 : A Commercial Test-bed for Electric Utilities
- SPS 2000 and its Internationalisation
- Synergies Between Solar Power Supply from Space and Passenger Space Travel
- The Benefits of Electricity from Space for Rapidly Advancing Countries
- The Moon as a Solar Power Satellite
- The Promise of Electricity from Space for World Economic Development
- The Promise of Reusable Launch Vehicles for SPS
- Tourism
- An evaluation of the potential demand for Space Tourism within the United Kingdom
- Benefits of Commercial Passenger Space Travel for Society
- Business Development for Space Tourism
- Commercial Implications of Market Research on Space Tourism
- Creation of an Accredited Passenger Regulatory Category for Space Tourism Services
- Demand for Space Tourism in America and Japan
- Developing Viable Financing Models for Space Tourism
- Dreams - About Space
- Economic Benefits of Space Tourism to Europe
- Evolution of the Modern Cruise Trade and its Application to Space Tourism
- Feasibility of Space Tourism
- Flight Mechanics of Manned Sub-Orbital Reusable Launch Vehicles with Recommendations for Launch and Recovery
- Funding the Development of a Space Tourism Industry
- General Public Space Travel and Tourism
- General Public Space Travel and Tourism Volume 2 - Workshop Proceedings
- Growing Popular Interest in Space Tourism: Challenge and Opportunity for Space Agencies
- Hearing on Space Tourism: Testimony by Buzz Aldrin
- Hearing on Space Tourism: Testimony by Dennis Tito
- Hearing on Space Tourism: Testimony by Edward Hudgins
- Hotels in Space
- How Soon Will it Happen?
- Interests of Japanese Airlines in Space
- Investigation on the Economic and Technological Feasibility of Commercial Passenger Transportation into Low Earth Orbit
- Its Importance, Its History, and a Recent Extraordinary Development
- JRS Research Activities for Space Tourism
- Meeting the Needs of the New Millennium: Passenger Space Travel and World Economic Growth
- On JRS Space Tourism Study Program
- Orbital Sports Stadium
- Potential Economic Implications of the Development of Space Tourism
- Practical Tourism in Space
- Progress Towards Space Tourism in Japan
- Prospects of Space Tourism
- Public Choice Economics and Space Policy: Realising Space Tourism
- Public Space Markets - What We Know And What We Don't Know
- Report of Working Group No. 4 of the AIAA-CEAS-CASI Workshop on International Cooperation in Space
- Researching the Space Tourism Market
- RLV Design Optimization for Human Presence in Space
- Services Expected for the First Phase of Space Tourism
- Some Views on Space Tourism from the United States
- Space Activities and Global Popular Music Culture
- Space Activities, Space Tourism and Economic Growth
- Space Flight Certification Requirements for Civilian Passengers
- Space Hotels: The Cruise Ship Analogy
- Space Policy, Space Tourism and Economic Policy
- Space Tourism After Dennis Tito
- Space Tourism and its Effects on Space Commercialization
- Space Tourism and RLVs: You Can't Have One Without the Other!
- Space Tourism and Space Medicine
- Space Tourism and Transportation
- Space Tourism Market Demand and the Transportation Infrastructure
- Space Tourism: A Flight of Fantasy or the Next Major Space Product?
- Space Tourism: Exploring a New Industry
- Space Tourism: Recent Progress and Future Prospects
- Space Tourism: Spaceflight for the General Public
- Space Travel and Tourism: A Response to Continuing Decay in US Civil Space Financial Support
- Space: The New Tourism Market
- The ASCENT Study - Understanding the Market Environment for the Follow-on to the Space Shuttle
- The Business of Space Tourism
- The Coming Space Industry Revolution and its Potential Global Impact
- The Cost of Capital for Space Tourism Ventures
- The Cost to Taxpayers of Governments' Anti-Space Tourism Policy and Prospects for Improvement
- The Cultural Effect of Space Tourism on the Space Industry and Society
- The Door into the Space Age
- The Economic Benefits of Space Tourism
- The Future of Commercial Airlines
- The Future of Lunar Tourism
- The Future of Space Tourism
- the Growing Consensus
- The Japanese Rocket Society's Space Tourism Research
- The JRS Space Tourism Study Program Phase 2
- The Pleasure of Spaceflight
- The Potential Importance of Passenger Space Travel Services
- The Prospects for Passenger Space Travel
- The Prospects for Space Tourism
- The Space Tourism Industry in 2030
- The Space Tourist
- The Surprising New Industry
- The Symbiotic Relationship between Astronaut Program and Space Tourism Development - A Third World Perspective
- Towards Commercial Space Travel
- Towards Space Tourism: The Challenge for British Space Policy
- What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace
- Why It Is Important To See A Potentially Large Space Travel And Tourism Business Created In The United States
- Vehicles
- A Celestial Body is a Celestial Body is a Celestial Body...
- A Common Cost Target of Space Transportation for Space Tourism and Space Energy Development
- A Cost Engineered Launch Vehicle for Space Tourism
- A Draft of Safety Standard for Designing Space Tour Vehicles
- A Single-Stage-to-Orbit Thought Experiment
- Access to Space: SSX
- An Alternative Strategy Process for Planning Government Space Programs
- ASCENT Study Final Report - Executive Summary
- Barriers to Space Enterprise
- Beta, A Single Stage Reusable Ballistic Space Shuttle Concept
- Changing the TransHab: An Orbiting Space Hotel
- Collaboration with Aviation - The Key to Commercialisation of Space Activities
- Comments on Certification Standards for New Reusable Launch Vehicles
- Concept of Operations in the National Airspace System in 2005
- Design of a Transportation System for Space Tourism
- Design Study on Propulsion Systems for Space Tourist Carrier Vehicle
- Designing Reusable Launch Vehicles for Future Space Markets
- Designing User-Friendly Civilian Spacecraft
- Economically Viable Public Space Travel
- European launch vehicle development: a commercial approach
- Flight Demonstration and a Concept for Readiness of Fully Reusable Rocket Vehicles
- Getting to Low Earth Orbit
- Hearing on Space Launch Initiative: Testimony by Steven Höeser
- Hearing on Space Launch Initiative: Testimony by Tom Rogers
- Historical Analogies Potentially Applicable To The Commercialization Of Space Activities
- History of the Phoenix VTOL SSTO and Recent Developments in Single-Stage Launch Systems
- How Much New Technology is Required for Future Reusable Launch Systems?
- Humanity's Future in Space
- Japanese Rocket Society's Rocket Symposia 1995-2001
- Kankoh Maru Flight Manual
- Lessons of ASCENT - Messages for Industry, the Federal Government and Spaceport Authorities
- Liquid Hydrogen Industry: A Key for Space Tourism
- Near-Term Prospects For Space Tourism
- New Commercial Opportunities in Space
- Orbital Considerations in Kankoh-Maru Rendezvous Operations
- Orbital Considerations in Kankoh-Maru Return Flight Operations
- Phoenix M: A Small SSTO Launch Vehicle for Commercial Space Transport Missions
- Pilot Procedures for Kankoh-Maru Operations
- Prospects for Inexpensive Space Transportation
- Reusable Space Transportation - The Key Infrastructure Element In Opening the Space Frontier To the Public
- Single Stage to Orbit Vertical Takeoff and Landing Concept Technology Challenges
- Space Tourism for Europe: A Case Study
- Status Report on Space Tour Vehicle
- Study on Airport Services for Space Tourism
- System Requirements for Commercial Passenger Travel to LEO
- The
- The Business of Commercializing Space
- The Cost to Taxpayers of Governments' Anti-Space Tourism Policy and Prospects for Improvement
- The First 100 Years of Public Space Travel
- The Imminent Space Revolution - How the UK Can Take the Lead
- The Key to Low Cost Access to Space
- The Regulation of Commercial Space Activities by the Non-Governmental Entities in Space Law
- The ROTON Concept and its Unique Operations
- The SSX Concept
- Throttling Dynamic Response of LH2 Rocket Engine for Vertical Landing Rocket Vehicle
- Vehicle Design for Space Tourism
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