Enabling technology needs and other requirements to support space industrialization include: large space structures; fabrication and joining processes; single stage to orbit and heavy lift launch vehicles; nuclear and solar space power systems; robotics, manipulators, and teleoperators; biotechnology in space; artificial gravity; the utilization of lunar materials for construction; and the extraction of oxygen and metals from lunar resources. New initiatives (FY 1978) directly supportive or partly related to space industrialization are listed.
Oast Space Theme Workshop. Volume 2: Theme Summary. 2: Space Industrialization (No. 8). A. Theme Statement. B. 26 April 1976 Presentation. C. Summary Statement. D. Initiative Action (Form 5)
1976
30 pages
Report
No indication
English