This report grew out of a 10-week program in engineering systems
design held at Stanford University and the Ames Research Center of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration during the summer
of 1975. The project brought together nineteen professors of
engineering, physical science, social science, and architecture,
and two co-directors. This group worked for ten weeks to construct
a convincing picture of how people might permanently sustain life
in space on a large scale. The goal of the summer study was to
design a system for the colonization of space. This report, like
the design itself, is intended to be as technologically complete
and sound as it could be made in ten weeks, but it is also meant
for a readership beyond that of the aerospace community. Because
the idea of colonizing space has awakened strong public interest,
the report is written to be understood by the educated public and
specialists in other fields. It also includes considerable
background material. The technical director, Gerard K. O'Neill of
Princeton University, made essential contributions by providing
information based on his notes and calculations from six years of
prior work on space colonization and by carefully reviewing the
technical aspects of the study.
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