NSS Library

Welcome to the NSS Library

NSS Video Library
	Space Shuttle Video Library Space Movement Leaders Speak Out International Space Development Conference (ISDC) Presentations ... MORE

Space Station Library
	Reference Guide to the International Space Station Archive of ISS Space Shuttle assembly flight blog commentaries by Marianne Dyson and Allen Taylor, 2005-2011

Space Solar Power Library

Sun Power: The Global Solution for the Coming Energy Crisis - complete online book by Ralph Nansen
Space-Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security. Report to the National Security Space Office, October 2007
Space Power - online book by G. Harry Stine
NASA Space Solar Power DVD
Satellite Power System Concept Development and Evaluation Program - a large set of the extensive Department of Energy/NASA studies from 1978 to 1981
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Planetary Defense Library
	Planetary Defense Library - Resources on preventing the human race from becoming extinct from asteroid or comet impacts.

Space Settlement Library
	Colonies in Space - complete online book by T. A. Heppenheimer Space Settlements - A Design Study (NASA Special Publication 413) Space Resources and Space Settlements (NASA Special Publication 428) Resources of Near-Earth Space - University of Arizona Press NSS Space Settlement Journal ... MORE

Lunar Bases and Settlement Library
	Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century Resources of Near-Earth Space, Part II: The Moon Lunar Resources Utilization for Space Construction ... MORE

Mars Library
	Access to Mars 2011 ISDC Presentation [PDF 2.3 MB] Resources of Near-Earth Space, Part IV: Mars NASA Mars Reference Mission (Mars "Semi-Direct") [PDF 2.3 MB] "Mars Direct" articles from Ad Astra Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning, 1950-2000 [PDF 2.4 MB] ... MORE

Space Policy Library
	Stephen Hawking on "Why We Should Go Into Space" - 25 minute video and transcript Mars Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Space Exploration Initiative The Space Shuttle Decision, by T. A. Heppenheimer Reaching for the High Frontier: The American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-84 Pioneering the Space Frontier - Report of the National Commission on Space ... MORE

Space Elevator Library
	Space Elevators - An Advanced Earth-Space Infrastructure for the New Millennium, 2000 The Space Elevator by Bradley C. Edwards (NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Study Phase 1 Final Report), 2000 The Space Elevator NIAC Phase 2 Final Report, 2003 ... More info

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