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"JOBS for the 21st Century"
by Christopher R. Willis (1992)
- This is
a full length 8.5x11 book which describes in detail the development of space,
the new propulsion system, the full mission to Mars, a manned mission to Jupiter, and
other interesting subjects such as the spaceship design and the hydroponic food production
system.
Full image is 68K
Copyright Notice
All text, tables, and other materials presented on this site and relating to this book
are copyrighted by Christopher R. Willis and are for your personal use only.
Table of Contents
- 1.0 Problems, problems, problems
- 1.1 The power/energy problem
- 1.1.1 Oil, the critical
resource
- 1.1.2 Oil, other supplies?
- 1.1.3 Natural gas
- 1.1.4 Coal
- 1.1.5 Hydroelectric power
- 1.1.6 Nuclear power
- 1.1.7 The United States energy
situation
- 1.1.8 Summary of the energy
situation
- 1.2 The worldwide food shortage
- 1.3 The problem of unemployment
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- 2.0 Hydroponics - the solution to the food problem
- 2.1 Factors which effect yields
- 2.2 Analysis of vegetables
- 2.3 Are these numbers for real?
- 2.4 Analysis of fruits
- 2.5 Nutrient value of vegetables
- 2.6 Financial considerations
- 2.7 Financial summary
- 2.8 Political summary
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- 3.0 Jobs - the solution to the unemployment problem
- 3.1 Jobs in the electric power industry
- 3.2 Jobs in the android industry
- 3.2.1 Android manufacturing
- 3.2.2 Prostheses
- 3.2.3 Android sales and
installation
- 3.2.4 Android repair and
service
- 3.2.5 Android training
- 3.3 Jobs in hydroponics
- 3.3.1 Construction
- 3.3.2 Research
- 3.3.4 Production
- 3.4 Jobs in space
- 3.4.1 Tourism
- 3.4.2 R & D
- 3.4.3 Remote control teams
- 3.4.4 Lunar science
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- 4.0 Earth based facilities
- 4.1 The cost of payload in orbit
- 4.2 Alternatives to rockets
- 4.2.1 High Altitude Research
Project (HARP)
- 4.2.2 Hydrogen gas gun
- 4.2.3 Two stage hydrogen gas
gun
- 4.2.4 Boeing hydrogen gas gun
- 4.2.5 Electromagnetic
"coil gun"
- 4.2.6 Railguns
- 4.2.7 Scram guns
- 4.2.8 Gerald Bull's Supergun
- 4.2.9 Sub-orbital gun
- 4.2.10 Summary of exotic
launch systems
- 4.3 Current earth launch sites
- 4.4 Earth to moon direct
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- 5.0 Low earth orbiting facilities
- 5.1 Space stations
- 5.1.1 Freedom space station
- 5.1.1.1 Alternate
space station designs
- 5.1.1.2 Cost
of space shuttle deployment of Freedom
- 5.1.1.3 Cost
of Energia/Shuttle deployment of Freedom
- 5.1.2 Mir space station
- 5.2 LEO fuel depots
- 5.3 The garbage collectors/destroyers
- 5.4 Earth-moon transportation system
- 5.5 Heavy lift vehicles
- 5.5.1 Advanced Launch System
(ALS)
- 5.5.2 External Tank (ET)
derivatives
- 5.5.3 Saturn 5
- 5.5.4 Energia
- 5.5.5 Big Dumb Booster
- 5.5.6 Shuttle-C
- 5.5.7 Summary of HLVs
- 5.6 Timeline
- 5.7 Political summary
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- 6.0 Space travel
- 6.1 Rockets
- 6.2 Nuclear rockets
- 6.3 Other exotic methods of space travel
- 6.4 Spaceship propulsion by momentum transfer
- 6.4.1 EMPL acceleration
- 6.4.2 How many projectiles?
- 6.4.3 Spaceship acceleration
- 6.4.4 Spaceship power
requirements
- 6.4.5 Flight profile to Mars
- 6.5 Specific impulse comparisons
- 6.6 Travel time comparisons
- 6.7 Hazards of space travel
- 6.8 Interstellar travel
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- 7.0 The first lunar base
- 7.1 Site selection
- 7.2 Delivering materials to the moon
- 7.2.1 The skyhook
- 7.2.2 The electromagnetic
lander
- 7.2.3 The lunar slide lander
- 7.3 Lunar products
- 7.3.1 Solar power facilities
on the moon
- 7.3.2 Helium-3
- 7.3.3 Oxygen
- 7.4 The first small EMPL
- 7.5 Lunar hydroponic facility
- 7.6 What has to be taken to the moon?
- 7.6.1 Nuclear power source
- 7.6.2 The aluminum extraction
machine
- 7.6.3 The silicon extraction
machine
- 7.6.4 The solar cell machine
- 7.6.5 Androids
- 7.6.6 Multi-purpose vehicles
- 7.6.7 Volatile extraction
machine
- 7.6.8 'Mond' process equipment
- 7.6.9 Vapor deposition machine
- 7.6.10 Mold maker machine
- 7.6.11 Landing guidance
system
- 7.6.12 Communication
equipment
- 7.6.13 Miscellaneous critical
components
- 7.6.14 Summary of regolith
processing
- 7.7 Summary of initial lunar base development
- 7.8 Costs of lunar projects
- 7.8.1 Past unmanned US lunar
projects
- 7.8.1.1 Ranger
series
- 7.8.1.2 Lunar
Orbiters
- 7.8.1.3 Surveyor
series
- 7.8.1.4 Summary
of unmanned US lunar programs
- 7.8.2 The Apollo (manned)
program
- 7.8.2.1 Apollo
11
- 7.8.2.2 Apollo
12
- 7.8.2.3 Apollo
14
- 7.8.2.4 Apollo
15
- 7.8.2.5 Apollo
16
- 7.8.2.6 Apollo
17
- 7.8.2.7 Cost
of the Apollo program
- 7.8.3 Current lunar projects
- 7.8.4 Future lunar projects
- 7.8.4.1 NASA
oversight subcommittee report
- 7.8.4.2 Keaton/Gelfand
proposal
- 7.8.4.3 Hoffman/Neihoff
- 7.8.4.4 Edward
Teller's lunar laboratory
- 7.8.4.5 Lunar
manufacturing proposal
- 7.8.4.6 NASA
lunar base scenario
- 7.8.4.7 Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory proposal
- 7.8.4.8 The
Ride report
- 7.8.4.9 Summary
of lunar proposals
- 7.9 Financial considerations
- 7.10 Financial summary
- 7.11 Political summary
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- 8.0 The polar lunar base
- 8.1 Site selection
- 8.2 The lunar polar railroad
- 8.3 Construction of the main electromagnetic
launcher
- 8.4 Cost of the primary EMPL
- 8.5 Power for the launcher
- 8.6 Perturbations of the orbit of the Moon
- 8.7 Timeline
- 8.8 Political summary
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- 9.0 The design of the spaceship
- 9.1 Apartment size and weight estimates
- 9.2 Hydroponic food production
- 9.3 Comparison of grown vs carried food supplies
- 9.4 The spaceship environment
- 9.5 Crew size and composition
- 9.6 The primary power source - nuclear energy
- 9.7 Spaceship assembly and checkout
- 9.8 Financing
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- 10.0 Phobos and Deimos
- 10.1 Asteroids
- 10.2 Visiting Phobos
- 10.3 The first spaceship to Phobos
- 10.3.1 The EMPL
- 10.3.2 Projectiles and
projectile racks
- 10.3.3 Nuclear power systems
- 10.3.4 Hydroponic food
production facilities
- 10.3.5 Crew's quarters
- 10.3.6 Androids
- 10.3.7 Fuel production
facilities
- 10.3.8 Mars landing systems
- 10.3.9 Mars observation
equipment
- 10.4 Outline of the Phobos mission
- 10.5 Timeline
- 10.6 Financing
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- 11.0 Mars, the red planet
- 11.1 Costs of Mars projects
- 11.1.1 Past Mars projects
- 11.1.1.1 Mariner
6 & 7
- 11.1.1.2 Mariner
8 & 9
- 11.1.1.3 Viking
1 & 2
- 11.1.1.4 Summary
of past Mars projects
- 11.1.2 Current Mars projects
- 11.1.2.1 Japanese
Mars orbiter
- 11.1.2.2 US
Mars Observer
- 11.1.2.3 CIS
- 11.1.2.4 Summary
of current Mars projects
- 11.1.3 Future projects
- 11.1.3.1 Unmanned
Mars missions
- 11.1.3.1.1 NASA Ames mini-landers
- 11.1.3.1.2 NASA JPL micro-rovers
- 11.1.3.1.3 Science Applications' Mars sample-return
- 11.1.3.1.4 NASA JPL Mars sample-return
- 11.1.3.1.5 Summary of unmanned Mars proposals
- 11.1.3.2 Manned
Mars missions
- 11.1.3.2.1 Lawrence Livermore National Lab plan
- 11.1.3.2.2 Lunar base study group
- 11.1.3.2.3 Stanford/Soviet study
- 11.1.3.2.4 Synthesis Group plan
- 11.1.3.2.5 Baker/Zubrin Mars mission
- 11.1.3.2.6 Ball Aerospace Corp
- 11.1.3.2.7 NASA Moon/Mars project
- 11.1.3.2.8 An Independent Mars Expedition
- 11.1.3.2.9 The Ride Report
- 11.1.3.2.10 Summary of manned Mars proposals
- 11.2 Should we finance a Mars sample-return
mission?
- 11.3 Lifting the crew to LEO via space planes
- 11.3.1 Buran
- 11.3.2 Hermes
- 11.3.3 HL-20
- 11.3.4 Hope
- 11.3.5 Hotol
- 11.3.6 Japanese NASP
- 11.3.7 US NASP
- 11.3.8 Sanger
- 11.3.9 SDI SSTO
- 11.3.10 Space van
- 11.3.11 Space shuttle
- 11.3.12 Other space planes
- 11.3.13 Summary of space
planes
- 11.4 Lifting the crew from LEO to HEO
- 11.5 Daily schedule for the crew
- 11.6 Arrival at Mars
- 11.7 Mars landing
- 11.8 Timeline
- 11.9 Financing
- 11.9.1 Ticket sales
- 11.9.2 Television rights
- 11.9.3 Martian souvenirs
- 11.9.4 Profits
- 11.9.5 Helium-3 sales
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- 12.0 Jupiter, the giant planet
- 12.1 The Galilean satellites
- 12.2 Selecting a home in the Jovian system
- 12.3 Outline of an unmanned mission to Callisto
- 12.4 Recovering Helium-3 from Jupiter
- 12.5 The manned spaceship to Jupiter
- 12.6 Timeline
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- Glossary
- References
- Bibliography
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