L5 News 1980s Issues

January 1980

• American Astronautical Society Against Moon Treaty, by Charles Sheffield
• Bulletin from the Moon Treaty Front, by Keith Henson

March 1980

• Off Planet Industry: The MIT Space Systems Laboratory/NASA study on “Extraterrestrial Processing and Manufacturing of Large Space Systems”, by David B. S. Smith
• Retrieving Asteroids, by Guy Pignolet
• How to Prevent Strikes and Revolts in Space, by Carolyn Henson
• Moon Treaty Update, by Carolyn Henson

June 1980

• Laser SPS? by Ray Sperber
• L5 Speaks Up to Department of Energy, by Carolyn Henson

September 1980

• Mass Driver Update, by Henry Kolm
• Moon Treaty Hearings

October 1980

• Laser SPS and the Hydrogen Economy, by R. G. Williscroft

December 1980

• L5 Phone Tree Helps Save Space Telescope and Galileo Project

January 1981

• L5’s Campaign to Save the Satellite Solar Power Station, by Mark Hopkins

February 1981

• Press Briefing on Solar Power Satellite Report: No Showstoppers, by Frederick Osborne, Jr.

March-April 1981

• Space: The Crucial Frontier – Citizens Advisory Council on National Space Policy
• Complete Council report [PDF 5.6 MB]

May 1981

• Lightsails: Breakthrough to Inexpensive Space Transportation, by K. Eric Drexler

July 1981

• Space Industrialization: A Three-Stage System, by Charles Sheffield
• Resources of Space – Cartoon by Johnny Robinson

December, 1981

• Press Misinterprets National Research Council Report on SPS, by Philip K. Chapman

March 1982

• UN Moon Treaty Falling to US Opposition Groups

August 1982

• Harvesting the Asteroids, by Steve Williams

September 1982

• L5’s Inevitable Victory, by Mark Hopkins

February 1983

• The Asteroidal Manifesto, by K. Eric Drexler

March 1983

• The Rocket/Skyhook Combination, by F. Burke Carley and Hans P. Moravec

August 1983

• The Value of the Moon, by Stephen L. Gillett

September 1983

• 1983 Princeton Space Manufacturing Conference, by Charles J. Divine
• Asteroids: The Better Resource, by Eric Drexler
• Review: Strategic Metals, by John S. Lewis

October 1983

• Have We Changed Our Goals? by Eric Drexler
• The MIT Space Systems Lab, by David G. Stuart

October 1983 (to September 1984 – 6 part article)

• Real Property Rights in Outer Space, by Wayne N. White, Jr.(link is to updated version off-site)

January 1984

• The Challenge of the Space Station, by Eric Drexler

October 1984

• The Case Against Mars, by Eric Drexler

November-December 1984

• Space and Advanced Technology, by K. Eric Drexler

January-February 1985

• Shuttle Pricing and Space Development, by Chris Peterson

June 1985

• A Look at Space Resources, by Ruth A. Lewis
• The Beginnings of the New Space Movement, by Michael A. G. Michaud
• Review: Strategic Materials, by John S. Lewis

January 1986 (to June 1986 – 5 part article)

• Statehood in Space: Political Evolution on the High Frontier, by Philip Bosshardt

From L5 News, newsprint edition, Vol. 1 No. 1, 1986

• Citizens’ Advisory Council on National Space Policy:  Recommendations for a New Space Policy

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