{"product_id":"a-dream-renewed-dale-skran-9781960259615","title":"A Dream Renewed: Space Settlement in the 21st Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince 1977, when Gerard K. O'Neill's book \u003cem\u003eThe High Frontier\u003c\/em\u003e was first published, there have been few attempts to push for new developments in large-scale, orbital space settlement, which remains an under-investigated subject. The most significant attempt to conduct this work, the Princeton Space Manufacturing Conferences established by O'Neill, ended in the late 1990s, and the systematic work conducted since then has mainly focused on peripheral topics such as lunar in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), avoiding direct consideration of the possibilities of life in orbital space. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2021, the National Space Society, in collaboration with NASA Advanced Innovation Concepts (NIAC), hosted the NSS Space Settlement Workshop to revisit the idea. Over the course of two days, more than fifty academics, engineers, NASA officials, and high-level leaders in the space exploration industry worked in tandem to perform a careful review of plans for major space settlement. This contemporary update dove deep into previously overlooked and lightly addressed subject areas and introduced many new and unique approaches to living off-Earth. A compendium of the results, \u003cem\u003eA Dream Renewed: O'Neill's Vision of Space Settlement in the 21st Century\u003c\/em\u003e is an exclusive report of that work and is the first comprehensive update since the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough curated chapters by the most brilliant and forward-thinking scientific minds in the industry, \u003cem\u003eA Dream Renewed\u003c\/em\u003e offers a window into the possibilities of human expansion into the final frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dale Skran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 196025961X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781960259615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nss Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Dale Skran","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48623492497663,"sku":"9781960259615","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-dream-renewed-dale-skran-9781960259615","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}