'new' space settlement web site

Great to see the interest, and presence, growing! This is part of what is
needed to make all of this a reality. Involvement.

My site is a community based site and can be found at
http://community.terraninstitute.com. The forums are loosely based around a
space station idea. I also have blogs available for those that want one...

Keith Barrows
http://community.terraninstitute.com

From: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Al Globus
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:26 AM
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [spacesettlers] 'new' space settlement web site

I've started a space settlement web site in my own domain. See
http://space.alglobus.net/

I've started with a relatively minor mod to what NASA has up, but as time
goes on it will diverge more and more.

Enjoy and, if you run a space web site, please consider linking to mine. I
think I've already linked to most of the space colony web sites out there,
but let me know if I've missed one.

In a late 2004 talk, Rutan made the following predictions:

1) Within 5 years 3,000 tourists will have been to space.
2) Within 15 years sub-orbital tourism will be affordable, and 50,000 people
will have flown.
3) Within 15 years the first, expensive orbital tourist flights will have
happened.
4) Within 25 years orbital tourism will be affordable.

There have been a lot of wild claims in this business, but Rutan may know
what he's talking about. His privately financed SpaceShip One was piloted
into space three times in 2004, and Rutan has a contract with Virgin
Galactic to build a true sub-orbital tourist vehicle.

Al Globus
Evolvable Systems Group (http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/esg)
UARC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

Views expressed in this email are only my opinions and are not the position
of any organization I'm familiar with.