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CALL FOR PAPERS – DETAILED DESCRIPTION

1 SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS & GLOBAL COLLABORATION

1.1 THE IMMENSE SOCIAL BENEFITS OF EXPANDING CIVILIZATION INTO OUTER SPACE

Chair: Bernard Foing (ILEWG & EuroMoonMars, VU Amsterdam/Leiden, IAF/ITACCUS, ESA)

• New jobs to be created in space and on Earth
• The potential of the civilian astronautics industry and market
• The potential of the space tourism and other industrial activities in Earth orbit, on the Moon and in the Cislunar space region
• Reducing conflicts on Earth by incrementing manifold the global richness, restarting the social lift for all earthlings, multiplying the opportunity of business and employment
• Relieving Planet Earth’s environment from the burden of human industrial development
• Relaunching economic growth at unprecedented rate
• Spin-off technologies, how the civilian space development can benefit life on Earth surface, innovative technologies R&D’s for space missions to improve the quality of life on Earth (residual benefits) including, e.g.: scratch resistance lens, fusion technologies (Helium 3)
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1.2 CIVILIZATION RISK MITIGATION

Chair: Thomas Matula (Prof. at Sul Ross State University – Rio Grande College)

• Space as the main ‘Knight’, defending humanity against the ‘Apocalypse’ multi-crisis
• Implementing active strategies to combat the effects of climate change
• Reducing the risk of a global economic crash, by a new powerful really sustainable development strategy
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1.3 GLOBAL COLLABORATION

Chair: Joe Pelton (ACES, Former Dean and Chairman of the Board of the International Space University)

Co-Chair: Jim Crisafulli (ACES, HiSPACE)

• Working with Agencies, Companies, Space Advocacy Associations, United Nations and Governments of Planet Earth to promote Civilian Space Development
• The 17 SDGs 2030 Agenda: is sustainable development feasible within the boundaries of Planet Earth?
• Economy: the closed world zero sum game and the desperate need of new space and resources
• A new age of international global collaboration: a rainbow of space initiatives among public and private entities, to kick-off the civilian space development
• Generating millions new qualified jobs in space and on Earth
• How civilian space development can defeat starvation, unemployment and underdevelopment on Earth
• How civilian space development can contribute to mitigating the environmental issues, climate change and natural environment decay on planet Earth
• How international collaboration can enhance and boost civilian space development
• The proposal of the 18^th SDG: bootstrapping civilian space development

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2 SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE DEVELOPMENT – Chair: Kevin Myrick (SRI, Synergy Moon)

2.1 SPACE HEALTH AND SAFETY

Chair: Susan Jewell (Mars-Moon Astronautics Academy & Research Science)

• Protecting human life and health in space:
  • space vehicles endowed with low acceleration and safe reenter in the atmosphere
  • protection against cosmic radiations
  • artificial gravity in the space habitats
  • green environment in the space habitats
• Space debris recovering and reuse:
  • the urgent need to recover the Earth orbit for a safe human navigation and residence
  • the space debris as the primary insitu resources for the development of space infrastructure
• Space wheather,
• Defence from asteroids
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2.2 POLICIES TO ENABLE COMMUNITIES BEYOND EARTH: TECHNOLOGIES, FINANCING, & COMMON LAW

Chair: Steve Wolfe (Beyond Earth Institute)

• The technical capabilities and financing mechanisms that will enable the creation of space settlements are rapidly maturing. Sound public policy is a significant driver in this positive development, but there is much more that government can do to accelerate this process. In this track we will address the three pillars that will enable settlement, and how sound policy will be essential for fulfillment.
• The remaining technical gaps, both in terms of protecting human biology in space and the ability to erect large structures and habitats beyond Earth’s atmosphere
• The financial models that will fund construction of large-scale human space facilities and what are some options with the pros and cons. Traditional public-public partnership models have helped to advance capability in the past decade and a half. This session will explore other models for financing large scale space communities
• The Governance Rules, for private and public access and utilization of space resources and property.
  • How should different actors in space arbitrate disputes?
  • What are the basic and universal allowances for self-governance of space communities?
  • What are the terms of property usage?
  • International space law is not sufficient to the task.
  • The Artemis Accords are a good start. How do we address the fullest needs for effective international policy as we anticipate the emergence of a thriving civilization in space?
• These three pillars must be simultaneously be addressed if we begin the process of expanding human civilization beyond Earth. All of these will require sound public policies to facilitate and enable. Building that framework must be a global priority.
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2.3 EARTH ORBIT INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Jerry Stone (Freelance Space Presenter, Spaceflight UK)

• Industrial activities which could be developed in Earth Orbit, in a time compatible with a reasonable ROI, e.g.:
  • space debris and wreckages recovering and reuse
  • in orbit satellites and spacecrafts assembly and maintenance: deployment, reconfiguring, life extension, orbital reposition, refueling, disposal
  • Earth to/from Orbit transportation fro passengers and cargo
  • sub orbital space tourism
  • orbital space tourism
  • orbit to orbit transportation
  • low gravity products, e.g. medical items, biotech labs, hybrid methals, industrial crystals,
  • space traffic management
  • space weather monitoring
  • space based solar power
  • orbital hotels for tourists and business travelers
  • fueling, park and servicing stations
  • orbital workshops, hangars, yards
  • space farming and agriculture
  • orbital real estate
  • orbital sport, entertainment and culture
• The necessary conditions to be developed asap, in order to allow the above development
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2.4 THE MOON AND CISLUNAR DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Michelle Hanlon (ForAllMoonkind)
Co-Chair: Jerry Stone (Freelance Space Presenter, Spaceflight UK)

• Lunar tourism: hotels, excursions, sports, arts entertainment
• Industrial settlements: regolith, helium and other materials 3 mining, 3d building
• Lunar Solar Power: solar power harvesting, packaging, distributing
• Exploration and Research:
  • Astronomic observation settlements,
  • Lava tubes,
  • Mineral resources analysis and classification,
  • Dark side and poles exploration
• Education: Lunar Campus, for earthling students
• The Moon: just a stop station towards Mars?
  • Why the Moon is strategical for any space development program
  • Moon: a space gym for space settlers, the kinder-garden of humans in space (Krafft Ehricke)
  • Working on the Moon, living in O’Neill Cislunar Cities
• Lunar development: a possible schedule towards 2050
  • The Artemis program, outpost of a permanent settlement?
  • The cost of traditional spendable rockets vs. reusable Space X Starship
  • Which perspective?
• Surface only vs. cislunar stations
  • living at 1/6 G and human physiology
  • working on the Moon and living in Cislunar O’Neill cities
• Legal aspects
  • Commercial and industrial activities: the lunar soil property issue;
  • The Outer Space Treaty and the Moon Treaty, which revisions are needed? or should them be trashed and developed brand new?
  • The plans of US and China, and the military issue

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2.5 SPACE BASED SOLAR POWER, POWERING CIVILIAN SPACE DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Arthur Woods (SRI, The Space Option, Greater Earth, Ars Astronautica)

• Space Based Solar Power (SBSP) is the energy source for any sustainable development program on Earth and in space
• Orbital solar power plants, to feed Earth and space customers
• How to make space settlement and SBSP to develop concurrently, mutually supporting
• Lunar and Cislunar Solar Power development
• How to avoid repeating the history of Telecommunication and Earth observation:
  • avoid filling Earth orbit with more unmanned satellites
  • SBSP and Earth orbit industrialization to go hand in hand

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2.6 GREENING THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Chair: Howard Bloom (Futurologist Writer)
Co-Chair: Bart Womack (Eden Grow Systems)

• Humans need green environment, wherever they will use to live
• Reproducing Planet Earth’s bioma in the Solar System
• Terraforming other planets
• Spreading gardens in the Solar Systems
• Creating botanic gardens in space habitats
• Selecting vegetable species for exo-agriculture and oxygen production
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2.7 MARS, THE ASTEROIDS BELT AND BEYOND

Chair:  Jerry Stone (Freelance Space Presenter, Spaceflight UK)

• Mars, a gateway to access the huge abundance of resources of the Asteroids Belt
• Industrial settlements and logistic hub, to process/stock/deliver materials mined from asteroids
• Terraforming Mars or just working, researching and exploring on its surface, living in orbital cities?
  • Living at 0.376 G or living at 1G (artificial gravity)?
  • Was a martian human race in a short time a desirable goal?
  • Is the O’Neill orbital cities model applicable to Mars too?
• Moon, Mars, Asteroid Belt, Moons of Jupiter and beyond, a logical path to settle the Solar System
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3 SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE PHILOSOPHY AND OUTREACH

 

3.1 A CONCEPTUAL TIMETABLE FOR THE FOUNDING STEPS OF SPACE SETTLEMENT

Chair: Bernard Foing (ILEWG & EuroMoonMars, VU Amsterdam/Leiden, IAF/ITACCUS, ESA)

• What can and should be realized within 2030, e.g.:
  • first steps of geo-lunar industrial development,
  • orbital and lunar space tourism,
  • permanent Moon settlement
• What can and should be realized within 2050, e.g.:
  • space development partially funded by space resources
  • first space habitats for civilian pioneers in the Cislunar space,
  • industrial settlements on the Moon,
  • Asteroids mining,
  • Mars and Asteroid Belt exploration,
  • Missions to the Jupiter’s Moons
• What can and should be realized within 2100, e.g.:
  • space development fully funded by space resources
  • space cities (O’Neill model) for millions citizen
  • lunar and asteroidal resources exploitement
  • Planet Earth natural environment refurbishment: the Natural Garden of the Solar System
• The enabling conditions for each phase
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3.2 TOURISM, LIVING, SPORT, ART AND CULTURE IN SPACE

Co-Chairs: Patrick Collins (SRI, SpaceFuture), Jerry Stone (Freelance Space Presenter, Spaceflight UK)

• A Scifi futurologist-presentist narration
• Some wonderful gifts of space, e.g.:
  • transport at no cost in zero g and zero attrite,
  • all the energy we want from the Sun at very low cost,
  • more freedom in time organization, free from the 24 hours cycle
  • more freedom in agriculture, free from Earth seasons and light/dark cycle
• Philosophy and culture: thinking out of the well, in 3d
• Space music, theatre, and figurative arts
• Low and zero gravity new sports and revised traditional sports
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