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Colonising Space

There are many places that we could go, especially near earth.

The easiest to get to is low earth orbit, although due to the Earth's strong gravitational pull it requires enormous amounts of energy to bring material up from the surface and one could not be self-sufficient here.

Places

• Low Earth orbit
• Higher earth orbits
• Lunar orbit
• The surface of the Moon
• L5
• Near Earth asteroids
• Solar orbit
• Mars moons
• Mars orbit
• The surface of Mars
• The asteroid belt
  • Ceres - lots of water ice
• Other moons (and there are x number of them)

Types of habitat

• Stanford torus
• O'Neill cylinder
• Crater bubble
• Rotating moonbase for 1G
• Hollowed out asteroid
• Zero-G station
• Rotating dumbell