The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
Jonathan Cape, 1977. Dust jacket by Rick Giudice. UK First Edition, first printing. Hardcover in a unclipped dust jacket. (£5.95).
Blue cloth boards with gilt titles on the spine. Tan endpapers. 288 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Green topstain.
Practical plans for life in space that have inspired filmmakers and writers envision daily life in a free-floating colony in the stars.
Gerard K. O’Neill, PhD. (1927-1992), a highly respected faculty member of the physics department at Princeton University who founded the Space Studies Institute. The High Frontier is the result of research into the colonization of space and the proposed idea for human settlement between the earth and moon in large, manned habitats constructed using raw materials from the lunar surface. Descriptions of future high-orbital manufacturing facilities, explaining how they will be placed in orbit, how they will operate, who will work in them, and how living conditions will be controlled and sustained. Illustrated with black and white plates
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