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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 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 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 ...
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.
Proposed interstellar vessel based on Gerard K. O'Neill's Island One version of Bernal sphere space habitat. The distances between galaxies are on the order of a million times farther than those between the stars, and thus intergalactic colonization would involve voyages of millions of years via special self-sustaining methods. [175] [176] [177]
The mass driver was inspired and designed by Gerard K. O'Neill of Princeton University (who was on sabbatical at MIT during the 1976–77 academic year) and Henry Kolm of MIT. It was built under their direction by students at MIT, largely using material scavenged from the scrap heap at the Bitter Magnet Lab at MIT.
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]
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