Future settlement in space

Here on earth our home we living our lives with our family, friends and variety of life
around us. very amazing atmosphere, environment but still a question come to our mind
will that remain same always? The condition of earth for life is getting hostile day by day
due to natural reason and also our activities then how lives flourish on earth in future.

We can move to space

When the first person landed on the Moon in 1969.A few years later, Princeton physicist
Gerard O'Neill and others showed that large orbital space settlements would fall within
understood principles of engineering and science, the Sun could provide the energy, and
that our technology had nearly reached the point where we could build space settlements.
These communities could be placed almost anywhere in the solar system. Mars went on
to outline a long term program to bring Mars to life with a vibrant human civilization.
Many plans for space settlement have been proposed in orbit, on the Moon, on Mars, the
asteroids, or elsewhere.

Future lies in space

We have to go into space for growth, wealth, energy, survival, spiritual development,
knowledge, diversity, to solve serious Earthly problems, to fulfill a sense of destiny and
responsibility, and even to have fun. The largest asteroid, Ceres, has enough material to
build orbital space settlements with a total living area well over a hundred times the land
area of the Earth.

 One smallish asteroid, 3554 Amun, has about $20 trillion worth of metal. There
are tens of thousands of asteroids.

 The energy available for space settlements exceeds 2 billion times the total energy
currently used by humanity.

 There are potentially profit-making industries: space tourism, space solar power,
space materials that can pave the path to the first self-sustaining space
settlements.
References and Recommended Reading

1. O'Neill, G. K. (1974). The Colonization of Space. Physics Today 27(9):32-40, September, 1974

2. Johnson, R. D. and Holbrow, C. editors (1977). Space Settlements: A Design Study. NASA SP-413

3. Heppenheimer, T. A. (1977). Colonies in Space. Stackpole Books.

4. O'Neill, G. K. (1977). The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. William Morrow and Company

5. O'Neill, G. K. (1979). Space Resources and Space Settlements. NASA SP-428.

6. Zubrin, R. and Wagner, R. (1996). The Case for Mars: the Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must. The
Free Press

7. Lewis, John S. (1996). Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets. Helix Books,
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.