• STS External Tank Reuse Study
  (1985) edited by J. Alex Gimarc
  (This SSI study is 73 pages so it'll take a while) (This paper is at the Space Frontier Foundation.)

• The External Tank Torus
  by David Buth
  (updated from a study first published in 1984, L-5 Points)

• The External Tank Torus Tour
  by David Buth
  (New, in several installments)

• Re-using today's rockets spent fuel tanks in orbit
  Another proposal for re-use of external tanks. (This one at permanent.com)

• Solar Power Satellites: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
  by Dr. Seth Potter
  (Kept on this site because some other places still link to it.)

• Magnetic Radiation Shielding: An Idea Whose Time Has Returned?
  by Geoffrey A. Landis (1991)
  (A Critical Technology Paper no longer available on NASA net sites)

• Report of the Advisory Committee on the Future of the U.S. Space Program
  (The Augustine Report), December 1990
  This important public document doesn't seem to be available elsewhere on the Web. Warning: this version was hand typed by members of MN SFS before the days of reliable optical character reader technology... beware of typos.

Available Soon

• The Impact of Space Colonization on World Dynamics
  by J. Peter Vajk (1976)
  (soon to be here also because of its rarity)

Last rev: August 30, 1999 -

 

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