Welcome to SpaceSoc Zine, our shorthand name for our online magazine. Here’s what’s cool about the Zine: You can write for it, articles from 150-1,500 words. Keep articles as brief as possible. We’ll have about a dozen articles at a time and as new ones come in, they’ll take the place of older ones that will become part [...]

by Tom Diffenbach of Seraph+Tom Decades ago I met for a mere half-hour with space settlement pioneering thinker Gerard O’Neill. In those minutes I saw that he had political acumen and openness to ideas beyond his own. I think that for scientific and political reasons, Gerard O’Neill, if he were still living, would have advanced [...]

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In a SpaceSoc focus group, we asked what might not be anticipated by space community developers. What do you think might not be anticipated? One participant, Kathleen Kennedy, said one thing that won’t be anticipated is that people change their minds. What do you think of her answer? Did you think of it? This is [...]

Al Globus, who chairs the space settlement committee of the National Space Society, has posted on his website his ideas about “Paths to Space Settlement”. Here’s the abstract of that article: A number of firms are developing commercial sub-orbital launch vehicles to carry tourists into space. Let’s assume they attract many customers and become profitable. [...]

SpaceSoc Exercise-1 is to prepare, like the coach of a team would, a “game plan” for setting up a space community of  1,000 persons. You don’t need to deal with the engineering know-how that built the community. Consider it already built and ready to use. For this exercise, you need to tell the steps needed to organize your [...]

SpaceSoc Exercise #2 is to organize a community project for your space community of 1,000 persons. If you are a team, consider yourselves a community organization doing the project. You don’t need to deal with engineering know-how. In 300 words or less, as much as possible in bulleted or outline form points, Define the project and its goal(s), (15%) the [...]

Your space community is well on the way to reality. Now you’ve been asked to establish the criteria for picking the settlers. So, to do SpaceSoc Exercise #3, you need to post in 150 words or less what kind of folks are going, and why? Do this fast! Folks around the world are waiting to [...]

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