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As space ventures have become more numerous, leading scientists and theorists have offered ways of building a living habitat in a hostile environment, taking an ecosystems view of space colonization. The contributors to this volume take a radical multi-disciplinary view of the challenge of human space colonization through the ongoing project Persephone. This book fundamentally challenges prevalent ideas about sustainability and proposes a new approach to resource austerity and conservation and providing truly sustainable approaches that are life-promoting. Readers will learn the details of the plans for Persephone a real project that is part of the company Icarus Interstellars plans for the design and engineering of a living interior on a worldship to be constructed in Earths orbit within 100 years. Although the timeframe itself is only an estimate, since it is contingent on many significant developments, including funding and technological advances, the industry consensus is that within 100 years we will see manned space exploration beyond our solar system. This notion is shared by organizations such as the Initiative for Interstellar Studies and the DARPA-funded 100-year starship project. This book specifically develops the principles for the construction of a living habitat within a worldship a multi-generational starship that contains its own world that supports colonists as it travels across great distances between stars at a speed much slower than light. Far from being a sterile industrial setup, such as the ISS, or even being a bucolic suburbia as proposed by Gerard ONeill in the 1970s, this worldship will provide the pre-conditions for sustaining life beyond Earths environment, which may also lead to the evolution of non-terrestrial ecologies. Drawing on the principles of ecopoiesis and insights offered by the Biosphere 2 experiment that demonstrated what we have to learn about ecosystem construction, this book proposes first designing the soils of such a space. It should then be possible to set up the conditions that a first generation of colonists may experience in leaving our solar system to find new worlds to settle - perhaps in spreading life throughout the universe. Although the book takes a unique view of ecology and sustainability within the setting of a traveling starship it is equally concerned with the human experience on artificial worlds. Chapters come from a range of multi disciplinary thinkers who shed light on the brave new future ahead from different angles.

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A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship

A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship

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Rachel Armstrong , PhD.

Professor of Experimental Architecture

Newcastle University

Newcastle-upon-Tyne , UK

Springer Praxis Books

978-3-319-31040-4 ISBN 978-3-319-31042-8 (eBook)

DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31042-8

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016952869

Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017

This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, speci cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on micro lms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed.

The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a speci c statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.

The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made.

Cover design: Jim Wilkie

Printed on acid-free paper

This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature

The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland Pref ace

This anthology examines the Interstellar question i.e. the idea that we may one day live beyond the world we know and settle distant planets. A challenge on this scale requires not only vision, but multiple voices for the acknowledgment of complexity and contradic-tions. These are inherent in the quest. Taking a multidisciplinary and cultural view of the challenge, the book accordingly seeks to provide a form of cultural catalysis by which an interstellar culture may be seeded (it is, in other words, emphatically not a technical manual seeking to offer formal solutions to particular problems). To address such ambi-tions, the book has been divided into two main sections Part I and II in which differing conventions of writing have been deployed.

Part I, written by Rachel Armstrong, proposes a new age of space exploration based on an ecological perspective of the cosmos. It is this that will create the conditions for inhab-iting starships and, ultimately, new worlds. Drawing on her leadership of the Persephone Project, this section adopts an experimental, yet testable, and inclusive approach to con-structing a livable and self-sustaining starship. Persephone is part of the Icarus Interstellar groups portfolio of work an international consortium of aerospace engineers aiming to construct a starship research platform in Earths orbit within the next hundred years. This means a series of Earth-bound experiments are being detailed through a wide range of laboratory types that inform us about how we live with and design ecosystems on this planet and beyond.

Part II, which is edited by Rachel Armstrong, introduces other voices to explore the Interstellar Question. The editors aim here has been to create a productive interplay between differing perspectives and disciplinary backgrounds via themed, multi-author chapters. These are organized into, sections, presenting distinct viewpoints for examining the Interstellar Question. Topics include: the interstellar mission (Andreas C. Tziolas, Nathan Morrison, Esther M. Armstrong), space ecology (Michael N. Mautner, Simon Park), (Barbara Imhof, Peter Weiss, Angelo Vermeulen; Astudio Emma Flynn, Richard Hyams, Christian Kerrigan, Max Rengifo; Susmita Mohanty, Sue Fairburn), space bodies (Kevin Warwick, Arne Hendriks, Rachel Armstrong, Sarah Jane Pell), connecting with the divine and the sacred and becoming cosmically conscious (Steve Fuller, Roberto Chiotti, vi Preface

Krists Ernstsons), constructing worlds (Jordan Geiger, Mark Morris) and interstellar research methodologies (Rolf Hughes, Rachel Armstrong). The unconventional structure explores how different perspectives must be brought into a productive dialogue when considering the fundamental principles for inhabiting space. If, as a result, the book resembles a Tower of Babel for the space age, this is a design choice that invites us to address our innate diversity. Readers are invited to re ect on what these different perspec-tives mean for a coherent approach to settling environments far, far beyond the familiar planet we call (for now) home.

Contents

List of Contributors .................................................................................................. xiv

PART I An Ecological View of the Interstellar Question

Chapters

1 The Interstellar Question: an ecological view by Rachel Armstrong ...........

1.1 Philosophy of space ................................................................................ 2

1.2 Prototyping the interstellar question .......................................................... 5

1.3 It begins ...................................................................................................... 13

1.4 Mission ....................................................................................................... 13

1.5 Aspirations ................................................................................................. 13

1.5.1 Introduction .................................................................................... 14

1.6 Ecocene ...................................................................................................... 15

1.7 Space ecology ............................................................................................ 18

1.8 Who are we? ........................................................................................... 19

1.9 Summary .................................................................................................... 20

References ........................................................................................................... 20

2 Architecture and space exploration by Rachel Armstrong ...........................

2.1 The interstellar challenge ........................................................................... 21

2.2 Far, far away ............................................................................................... 22

2.3 Architecture as a survival strategy ............................................................. 24

2.4 Space skyscraper ........................................................................................ 28

2.5 What is this place called space? ............................................................. 33

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