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Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6, 1927 – April 27, 1992) was an American physicist and space activist.As a faculty member of Princeton University, he invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiments. [1]
The society was established in the United States on March 28, 1987, by the merger of the National Space Institute, founded in 1974 by Wernher von Braun, [2] and the L5 Society, founded in 1975 based on the concepts of Gerard K. O'Neill. [3] The society has an elected volunteer Board of Directors and a Board of Governors. The Board of Directors ...
O'Neill, Gerard K. (1977). Space-Based Manufacturing from Nonterrestrial Materials. Amer Inst of Aeronautics. ISBN 978-0-915928-21-7. O'Neill, Gerard K. (1981). 2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-44751-9. NSS review of 2081 Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
The L5 Society was founded in 1975 by Carolyn Meinel and Keith Henson to promote the space colony ideas of Gerard K. O'Neill. [ 1 ] In 1987, the L5 Society merged with the National Space Institute to form the National Space Society .
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space is a 1976 book by Gerard K. O'Neill, a road map for what the United States might do in outer space after the Apollo program, the drive to place a human on the Moon and beyond.
A real study says it's possible for people to live in asteroids—and it's also brilliant. Science makes the case for O'Neill cylinders, or floating space cities.
An O'Neill cylinder (also called an O'Neill colony, or Island Three) is a space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his 1976 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. [1] O'Neill proposed the colonization of space for the 21st century, using materials extracted from the Moon and later from asteroids. [2]
Space Studies Institute is a not-for-profit [2] organization that was founded in 1977 by Princeton University Professor Gerard K. O'Neill.. In 2009 SSI moved its operations from its long-term base in Princeton, New Jersey, to Mojave, California. [3]