Difference between revisions of "Colonising Space/Links"
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* [http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/index.php Copenhagen Suborbitals], an open-source project to put a man in space. | * [http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/index.php Copenhagen Suborbitals], an open-source project to put a man in space. | ||
* [http://www.openluna.org ''Open Luna''] - attempting open-source lunar expeditions, initially robotic-based | * [http://www.openluna.org ''Open Luna''] - attempting open-source lunar expeditions, initially robotic-based | ||
| + | * [http://teamfrednet.org Tem FREDNET] - ''"a group of scientists, technologists, and engineers who are using their combined talents to create a timely and elegant solution to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE"'' | ||
* [http://openvirgle.net ''OpenVirgle.net''] - sustainable living in space using free and open source technology. | * [http://openvirgle.net ''OpenVirgle.net''] - sustainable living in space using free and open source technology. | ||
Revision as of 09:53, 5 February 2011
Some interesting organisations
- Space Settlement Institute
- Space Studies Institute
- National Space Society
- Space Frontier Foundation
- Mars Society
- British Interplanetary Society
- Alliance to Rescue Civilization, an organisation that aims to create an off-Earth backup of human civilisation that is able to repopulate the Earth in event of a global disaster or reintroduce knowledge of science and the arts.
- CosmosCode - "Open Source Software Development for Space Exploration" from NASA's Ames Research Center
- Anansi Spaceworks is at the early stages of attempting to use open source principles to develop space technology
- Copenhagen Suborbitals, an open-source project to put a man in space.
- Open Luna - attempting open-source lunar expeditions, initially robotic-based
- Tem FREDNET - "a group of scientists, technologists, and engineers who are using their combined talents to create a timely and elegant solution to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE"
- OpenVirgle.net - sustainable living in space using free and open source technology.
Other
- Some interesting quotes about why we should colonise space: http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/space/quotes.htm
- Going into space may be one of the best things we can do to save our world, and ourselves (Cosmos magazine)
