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The first known work on space colonization was The Brick Moon, a work of fiction published in 1869 by Edward Everett Hale, about an inhabited artificial satellite.[57] The Russian schoolmaster and physicist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky foresaw elements of the space community in his book Beyond Planet Earth written about 1900. Tsiolkovsky had his space travelers building greenhouses and raising crops in space.[58] Tsiolkovsky believed that going into space would help perfect human beings, leading to immortality and peace.[59] Others have also written about space colonies as Lasswitz in 1897 and Bernal, Oberth, Von Pirquet and Noordung in the 1920s. Wernher von Braun contributed his ideas in a 1952 Colliers article. In the 1950s and 1960s, Dandridge M. Cole[60] published his ideas. Another seminal book on the subject was the book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by Gerard K. O'Neill[61] in 1977 which was followed the same year by Colonies in Space by T. A. Heppenheimer.[62] M. Dyson wrote Home on the Moon; Living on a Space Frontier in 2003;[63] Peter Eckart wrote Lunar Base Handbook in 2006[64] and then Harrison Schmitt's Return to the Moon written in 2007.[65] As of 2013, Bigelow Aerospace is the only private commercial spaceflight company that has launched two experimental space station modules, Genesis I (2006) and Genesis II (2007),[66] into Earth-orbit, and is planning to launch their BA 330 commercial production module into space by 2014 or 2015.[citation needed] |
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