Hackerspaces Global Space Program/Manifesto

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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:

  1. Earth Moon Tunnel Habitat
  2. Mars Tunnel Habitat
  3. Asteroid Belt Mining and Habitation
  4. Jupiter; Atmospheric Mining, Moons Mining, and Trojans Mining

Stage 7: Stellar Medium Mastery Goals:

  1. Outer-solar System Probe, Giant Solar Sails, Polywell Bussard Ram Jet, Antimatter Drive, Candidate Network Systems, Nanoscopic Self-replicating Computers and Robotics
  2. Extra Solar Communications Network, Uploaded Consciousness