With the successes of Apollo, Skylab, Soyz, Viking, and the planetary survey spacecraft, we humans have shown our ability to break free of the limits a planetary surface imposes. They feel that the breakout of humankind into space is too important to be left to the vagaries of national politics and they are making it happen on their own. A small band of people from all over the world are applying it now in practice.
If you want to be sure something gets done, do it yourself. Here is Gerry’s First Word in Omni Magazine. They are just as wrong now, if not more so than in the 70’s, but their voices have been adopted by those with good intentions, but no clue about what the future can hold, if we just not give up, not give in, and we don’t surrender to the voices of darkness. We need to make it happen because the same type of doom and gloomers that were around then are screaming louder today. The reason to me that this is important is that the subject of space manufacturing, space resources, and space development have been around for a long time and it hasn’t happened yet and we need to understand why it did not happen then and how to make it happen today. O’Neill’s writings, including a short one from Omni magazine that is important and I will reproduce in part here. A dear friend has recently given me a corpus of Dr.
There is a pretty good Wikipedia page about him here. This mission was later adopted by NASA, flew in 1998, and provided the first solid indication of water ice and global resources after the Apollo era. I was a member of one of their projects, the Lunar Prospector, the first privately conceived lunar resource mapping mission. O’Neill in Omni (and Omni magazine itself) was a breath of fresh air, a counterweight to the Limits to Growth doom and gloomers of that era. As a teenager of that era who lived and breathed space, reading Dr. This was also the beginning of the time of the problems that carry on today in the middle east. Every day then it was the doom and gloom of the gas crisis, the resource crisis, the nuclear crisis, and most of all, an amazing crisis of spirit, that was not commented on with the hysteria of the other crises. The 1970’s was an era very much like today. He founded the Space Studies Institute with the premise that space was too important to be left to the politicians. O’Neill, professor of physics at Princeton University was one of the very few voices for space that had the gravitas to be published and listened to on the subject. There is a group of people, most of us now in our fifties now, that call ourselves Gerry’s kids.
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