Gerard K. O'Neill
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Gerard Kitchen O'Neill was an American physicist and space activist. As a faculty member of Princeton University, he invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experime
NASA envisioned an ambitious scientific exploration of the Moon.
Bernal sphere, an "inside-out planet"
O'Neill cylinders as illustrated in The High Frontier
O'Neill's ashes were carried on the upper stage of an Orbital Sciences Pegasus
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space is a 1976 book by Gerard K. O'Neill, a road map for what the United States might do in outer space after the Apollo program, the drive to place a human on th
Gerard K. O'Neill
…professor Henry Kolm in 1976. He considered mass drivers critical for extracting the mineral resources of the Moon and asteroids. His award-winning book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space inspired a generation of space exploration advocates. He died of leukemia in 1992. O'Neill was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 6, 1927, to…
First edition cover
Interior of an O'Neill cylinder
Interior of an O'Neill cylinder