The Future of Living in Space

This is an interdisciplinary book about the diverse challenges and amazing opportunities that can emerge from new discoveries that derive from efforts designed to improve ways to live safely and comforably in space. The book will provide the reader with knowledge about the current conditions and future direction of space programs and technology. It explores boundary-pushing research in nuclear power spacecraft, space elevators, space habitats with simulated gravity, breakthroughs in space medicine and health, space farming, space law and economic and corporate strategies to make the deep space economy to become a paying proposition.It will also explore the impacts the “NewSpace” companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX. The chapters are written by international space professionals with a wide range of expertise across many different fields. The prime purpose and need of this book is to reveal to the space enthusiast what may be the future in the world of space. It gives new insight into key trends in not only space technology, but also the business, the economic, as well as the legal, social, medical and health-related issues of living-in-space. It even provides insights about what advances in AI, “smart robots” and other space-related systems might bring in the next two decades. Some of these space-related trends might even help humans live here on Earth on a more sustainable basis.