Unlike earlier colonization events, no people will be oppressed and no ecosystems destroyed for the simple reason that there aren't any out there. In time, we may see millions of free space habitats in our solar system alone. These space settlements could be wonderful places to live about the size of a California beach town and endowed with weightless recreation, fantastic views,įreedom, elbow-room in spades, and great wealth.

In the 1970's Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill showed that we can build giant spacecraft in free space (in orbit, not on a planet or moon) and live in them. Today, there is life on Earth and very little life in space, just a few astronauts, plants and animals on the International Space Station and a few bacteria here and there on spacecraft. Hundreds of millions of years ago there was life in the ocean, but no life on land. President, in the 2015 State of the Union address to Congress push out into the solar system not just to visit, but to stay.'īarack Obama, U.S. Free Space Settlement Free Space Settlement bring space to life and life to space