Hackerspaces Global Space Program/Manifesto
What: We are going to the Stars
How: 7 Stages of Measurable Success
Stage 1: Ground Testing Mastery Goals: Cryogenic Fuel Storage, Stationary and Mobile Nuclear Power, Stations (Life support, Construction, Industrial, Agriculture, Tourism, Uploaded Consciousnesses
Stage 2: Sub Orbital Mastery Goals: High Altitude Balloons and/or Aircraft, and/or Rocketry, Edge of Space Craft, High Altitude Stations (Tourism, Ground to Orbit Staging Platforms)
Stage 3: LEO Mastery Goals: Chemical Surface to LEO, Debris Recycling, Stations (Life support, Construction, Industrial, Agriculture, Tourism, Artificial Gravity), LEO to Surface Decelerators
Stage 4: Lagrange Point Mastery Goals: Chemical Surface to L Points, Ion LEO to L point, Cryogenic Fuel Storage, Stationary Nuclear Power (fission/fusion), Stations (Life support, Construction, Industrial, Agriculture, Tourism, Artificial Gravity, Extra-solar Habitable Planet Location
Stage 5: NEA/C Mastery Goals: LEO/L point to NEA, Mobile Nuclear Power and Propulsion (fission/fusion), Metals/Volatiles mining and refining [space "gold rush"], Large scale Toridical Habitat
Stage 6: Planetary Bodies Mastery Goals:
- Earth Moon Tunnel Habitat
- Mars Tunnel Habitat
- Asteroid Belt Mining and Habitation
- Jupiter; Atmospheric Mining, Moons Mining, and Trojans Mining
Stage 7: Stellar Medium Mastery Goals:
- Outer-solar System Probe, Giant Solar Sails, Polywell Bussard Ram Jet, Antimatter Drive, Candidate Network Systems, Nanoscopic Self-replicating Computers and Robotics
- Extra Solar Communications Network, Uploaded Consciousness
