L5 News cover, August 1980

Note: In the 1980s, the L5 News became a more general space publication. Since the purpose of this section of the website is to preserve news about the L5 concept and the L5 Society, rather than general space news, only selected articles are presented for the 1980s. They are in HTML format.

From L5 News

January 1980

• American Astronautical Society Against Moon Treaty, by Charles Sheffield
• Bulletin from the Moon Treaty Front, by Keith Henson

March 1980

• Off Planet Industry: The MIT Space Systems Laboratory/NASA study on "Extraterrestrial Processing and Manufacturing of Large Space Systems", by David B. S. Smith
• Retrieving Asteroids, by Guy Pignolet
• How to Prevent Strikes and Revolts in Space, by Carolyn Henson
• Moon Treaty Update, by Carolyn Henson

June 1980

• Laser SPS? by Ray Sperber
• L5 Speaks Up to Department of Energy, by Carolyn Henson

September 1980

• Mass Driver Update, by Henry Kolm
• Moon Treaty Hearings

October 1980

• Laser SPS and the Hydrogen Economy, by R. G. Williscroft

December 1980

• L5 Phone Tree Helps Save Space Telescope and Galileo Project

January 1981

• L5's Campaign to Save the Satellite Solar Power Station, by Mark Hopkins

February 1981

• Press Briefing on Solar Power Satellite Report: No Showstoppers, by Frederick Osborne, Jr.

March-April 1981

• Space: The Crucial Frontier
• Citizens Advisory Council on National Space Policy
  • Complete Council report [PDF 5.6 MB]

May 1981

• Lightsails: Breakthrough to Inexpensive Space Transportation, by K. Eric Drexler

July 1981

• Space Industrialization: A Three-Stage System, by Charles Sheffield
• Resources of Space - Cartoon by Johnny Robinson

December, 1981

• Press Misinterprets National Research Council Report on SPS, by Philip K. Chapman

March 1982

• UN Moon Treaty Falling to US Opposition Groups

August 1982

• Harvesting the Asteroids, by Steve Williams

September 1982

• L5's Inevitable Victory, by Mark Hopkins

February 1983

• The Asteroidal Manifesto, by K. Eric Drexler

March 1983

• The Rocket/Skyhook Combination, by F. Burke Carley and Hans P. Moravec

August 1983

• The Value of the Moon, by Stephen L. Gillett

September 1983

• 1983 Princeton Space Manufacturing Conference, by Charles J. Divine
• Asteroids: The Better Resource, by Eric Drexler
• Review: Strategic Metals, by John S. Lewis

October 1983

• Have We Changed Our Goals? by Eric Drexler
• The MIT Space Systems Lab, by David G. Stuart

October 1983 (to September 1984 - 6 part article)

• Real Property Rights in Outer Space, by Wayne N. White, Jr. (link is to updated version)

January 1984

• The Challenge of the Space Station, by Eric Drexler

October 1984

• The Case Against Mars, by Eric Drexler

November-December 1984

• Space and Advanced Technology, by K. Eric Drexler

January-February 1985

• Shuttle Pricing and Space Development, by Chris Peterson

June 1985

• A Look at Space Resources, by Ruth A. Lewis
• The Beginnings of the New Space Movement, by Michael A. G. Michaud
• Review: Strategic Materials, by John S. Lewis

January 1986 (to June 1986 - 5 part article)

• Statehood in Space: Political Evolution on the High Frontier, by Philip Bosshardt

From L5 News, newsprint edition, Vol. 1 No. 1, 1986

• Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy:  Recommendations for a New Space Policy