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In 1969 America had proved its leadership in human spaceflight but among the nation’s youth an anti-technology mindset was growing. Princeton Physicist and Professor Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill, inventor of the revolutionary Colliding-Beam Storage Ring technology that is now the basis of all high energy particle accelerators, asked his students…


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1 author picked The High Frontier as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

It’s an oldie (originally published in 1976!) but still in print. O’Neill offers us an optimistic vision of the giant “space cities” we may be able to build when we master space mining based on solid numbers.

I have my reservations, and Nesvold’s cautions still apply, but just maybe we can do better this time around.

From Martin's list on space mining.

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