EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Space resources must be used to support life on the Moon and exploration of Mars. Just as the pioneers applied the tools they brought with them to resources they found along the way rather than trying to haul all their needs over a long supply line, so too must space travelers apply their high technology tools to local resources.

The concept for this report was developed at a NASA-sponsored summer study in 1984. The program was held on the Scripps campus of the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), under the auspices of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). It was jointly managed by the California Space Institute and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, under the direction of the Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology (OAST) at NASA Headquarters. The study participants included a group of 18 university teachers and researchers (faculty fellows) who were present for the entire 10-week period and a larger group of attendees from universities, Government and industry who came for a series of four 1-week workshops.

The organization of this report follows that of the summer study. Space Resources consists of a brief overview and four detailed technical volumes: (1) Scenarios; (2) Energy, Power, and Transport; (3) Materials; (4) Social Concerns. Although many of the included papers got their impetus from workshop discussions, most have been written since then, thus allowing the authors to base new applications on established information and tested technology. All these papers have been updated to include the authors' current work.

(Extracted from the preface.)

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Volume I: Scenarios.

-Preface.

-Contents.
-Introduction.
-Baseline Program.
-Alternative Scenarious Utilizing Nonterrestrial Resources.
-Impacts of Sociopolitical Conditions.
-Common Technologies.
-Issues for Further Study.

-Volume II: Energy, Power and Transport.

-Preface.

-Contents.
-Energy and Power: Introduction.
-Power System Requirements.
-Technologies.
-Conclusions.
-Transport: Introduction.
-Utilization of Space Resources in the Space Transportation System.
-Aluminium-Fueled Rockets for the Space Transportation System.
-Electromagnetic Launch of Lunar Material.
-Tethers.
-Electric Propulsion.
-Beamed Energy Propulsion.

-Volume III: Materials.

-Preface.

-Contents.
-Part 1. Exploring, Evaluating, and Mining Nonterrestrial Resources.
-Part 2. Beneficiation and Extration of Nonterrestrial Materials.
-Part 3. Manufacturing and Fabrication.

-Volume IV: Social Concerns.

-Preface.
-Contents.
-I. Synthesis of Space Activities.
-II. New Space Management and Structure.
-III. Legal and Political Issues.
-IV. Social and Cultural Issues.
-V. Environmental Issues.
-VI. Increasing Success Probabilities: Issues of Space Communities and Habitats.
-VII. Summer Study Postcript: A 1986 Perspective.