zero gravity manufacturing

No, it is out of print, however it was scanned onto the CD that accompanys
the new edition of The High Frontier.

> Bettie,
> Baseline L5 Construction Station/Gerald W. Driggers, Southern Research
> Institute, pg. 33 from the 1977 conference is referenced in Space
> Settlements, A Design Study NASA 1977. Is this one available?
> Mitchell James
>
> >We do not have the rights for all the papers for republication,
> the staff to
> >scan all the material in for the first 9 volumes, the hardware to
> do it, the
> >money to do it, or the software to get it into an organized fashion
> so that
> >you could use it. It is in our plans to do so at some point which
> os why we
> >now collect electronic versions with the papers for publication
> from the
> >authors. (The last two volumes.) So it is coming, but you'll probably
> have
> >to wait a while. BG
> >
> >> Thank you Bettie for reminding me that the TOCs are on line. I still
> >> want a CD.
> >>
> >> The following were listed in the SSI Conference TOCs:
> >>
> >> SSI Conference 1 - 1975
> >> Industrial Development in Zero-G/Louis R. McCreight, General Electric
> >> Company
> >>
> >> SSI Conference 2 - 1977
> >> A Factory Concept for Processing and Manufacturing with Lunar
> >> Material/Gerald W. Driggers, Southern Research
> >> Institute
> >>
> >> SSI Conference 3 - 1979
> >> Gas Entrained Solids-A Heat Transfer Fluid for Use in Space
> >>
> >> SSI Conference 4 - 1981
> >> Powder Metallurgy in Space Manufacturing
> >>
> >> SSI/AAS Conference - 1983
> >> Electrophoretic Purification of Cells in Space: Evaluation of Results
> >> from STS-3
> >>
> >> SSI Conference 11 - 1997
> >> Possible Use of Surface Tension to Shape Space Structures
> >>
> >> At least two of these 1979 & 1983 probably have nothing to do with
> >> manufacturing in zero gravity. That leaves THREE possible papers
> in an
> >> area where we just blithely say "and the raw lunar/astroid resources
> >> will be used to build space structures".
> >>
> >> It seems that we may need to look at how all manufacturing can
> be done
> >> on the moon since there seems to be little on what to do with lunar
> >> resources once they are in zero gravity.
> >>
> >> Mitchell James
> >> http://www.InnerTransit.org (Home base for collaborative engineering
> >> projects)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> Mitchell James
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