2016 Published Proceedings

To live on New Worlds we need new ideas. These are the ideas that captured the New Worlds’ vision and impressed us:

BEST OF EVENT:

• FARMERS IN THE SKY – Food and Agriculture in spaces
  
  • Morgan Irons
    • Paper: The Development of Closed Ecological Systems for Space Habitation
    • Presentation: Growing A Mars Base
    • Video: Growing a Mars Base

SELECTED & NOTABLE PAPERS:

• SPACE HIGHWAYS – Inter-Solar Transportation
  • Doug Cook
    • Paper – A Bold Proposal for a Crewed Deep Space Mission to Rendezvous with and Sample an Asteroid and a Comet
    • Presentation – A Bold Proposal for a Crewed Deep Space Mission to Rendezvous with and Sample an Asteroid and a Comet
  • Joe Lingren, Leon Vanstone, Ravi Lumba
    • Paper – Developing a Mass Standard for Planetary Landings 
    • Presentation – Developing a Mass Standard for Planetary Landings
  • John Strickland, Jr.
    • Paper – Eight Steps for Access to Mars
    • Presentation – Eight Steps for Access to Mars
      

• SPACE MAKERS – Manufacturing
  • Behrokh Khoshnevis, Xiao Yuan, Behnam Zahiri, Jing Zhang
    • Paper –  In-Situ Planetary Construction And In-Space Fabrication Technologies
    • Presentation – Technologies for In-situ Planetary Construction and In-space Fabrication
  • Patrick A. Donovan
    • Paper – Presenting the Exhaust Recovery Utilization Processing Tool (ERUPT)
    • Presentation – Presenting the Exhaust Recovery Utilization Processing Tool (ERUPT)
  • Rob Kelso, Rodrigo Romo, Rob Mueller
    • Paper – PAVING the Way to Planetary Basalt ISRU Construction
    • Presentation – Building a Vertical Takeoff/Vertical Landing Pad(VTVL) from Start to Finish
      

• FARMERS IN THE SKY – Food and Agriculture in space
  
  • Donald Jacques
    • Paper – The Biome: An Integrated Pathway to Food Independence and Sustainability In Space
    • Presentation – The Biome: An Integrated Pathway to Food Independence and Sustainability In Space

• SPACE RESOURCES – Mining the Sky
  • Edwin Ethridge, PhD
    • Paper – Microwave Mining of Water from the Moon, Mars and Asteroids
    • Presentation – Mining of Water from the Moon, Mars, and Asteroids with Microwaves
  • Rodrigo Romo, Christian Andersen, Robert Mueller
    • Paper – In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU): The Basalt Economy
    • Presentation – In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU): The Basalt Economy
      

• HOME SWEET HOME – Space Habitats
  • Greg Vialle
    • Presentation – Mars In Situ Habitat Assembly
  • Keegan Kirkpatrick
    • Paper – Homestead: Building With What’s Beneath Your Feet
    • Presentation – Homestead: Building With What’s Beneath Your Feet
  • Manuel Pimenta
    • Paper – Welcome to Malapert City
    • Presentation – Welcome to Malapert City
  • Samuel W. Ximenes
    • Paper – LEAP2and LCATSA Framework for Lunar Site Technology Development Using a Global Space-STEM Education Network
    • Presentation – LEAP2and LCATSA Framework for Lunar Site Technology Development Using a Global Space-STEM Education Network

• LEGAL FRAMEWORK – The Rules of Space
  • Brian Hollar
    • Paper – This Mine Is Mine! The Economic Importance of Establishing Interplanetary Property Rights to Promote Production and Exchange Throughout the Expanse