The Orbiting Space Colonies Will Grow

The Orbiting Space Colonies Will Grow
*May 20, 2006 by Michael Goodspaceguy Nelson
( This is my message # 9. I have also put more than twenty messages on my other blog at http://colonizespace.blogspot.com )

*The spinning, orbiting space colonies will start small (perhaps at or near the International Space Station and also high above the equator?) but then as the forces of private ownership and the competitive, free market are allowed and are promoted in the tiny, beginning space colonies, the orbiting colonies will prosper and start to grow into the great, spinning, orbital cities that they are destined to become.
*The growing, orbital, space colonies will contain many economic and technological functions. For example, they will triumph in the technology of recycling. They will grow great in green house agriculture. They will grow great in agricultural, fish farming aquariums. They will use the abundant solar energy of the Sun.
*The people of the orbiting space colonies will mine the waters of the comets. The waters will be used for shielding from radiation and will be used to support life in the beginning settlements and will be used to expand life throughout our solar system.
* The people of the orbiting space colonies will mine the asteroids to gain the metals and materials with which to expand the growing, orbiting, space cities to come.
*The orbiting space colonies will be spinning to provide different levels of artificial gravity, from near zero gravity at the center of spin, to lunar gravity further from the center of spin, to Mars gravity, to Earth gravity.
*The orbiting space colonies will be modular for easy add-on expansion.
* There will be modules within modules within modules, with lesser air pressure in the outer modules.
*The beginning, orbiting space colonies could start as privately-owned, connected modules, subsidized by NASA.
* Connected end-to-end, the growing, long row of habitable modules could be spun comfortable end-over-end to simulate gravity of different degrees in the different, connected modules.