Space manufacturing 1983; Proceedings of the Sixth Conference, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, May 9-12, 1983General topics are biomedical and social sciences, space stations and habitats, space manufacturing, international and legal considerations, materials resources and processing, accelerators and asteroids, and space economics. Among the papers presented, consideration is given to the evolution of man as an explorer; whether people, robots, or hybrids should operate a space station; electrophoresis experiments in space; the emerging government regulation of American space entrepeneurs; the extraction and purification of iron-group and precious metals from asteroidal feedstocks; the construction, testing, and design comparison to computer simulation fo the Mass-Driver III; and the international competition in commercial aerospace markets.
Document ID
19840047065
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Burke, J. D. (California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA, United States)
Whitt, A. S. (Space Studies Institute Princeton, NJ, United States)