"space settlement" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a potential human colony or permanent settlement established in outer space, beyond Earth's atmosphere. This term is commonly used in discussions and plans related to space exploration and the potential for human habitation in space. Example: The multinational organization is currently working on plans for a space settlement on Mars, where humans can live permanently and conduct experiments and research in a low-gravity environment.
If large-scale space settlement still sounds a little crazy, consider that from the passing of the Space Settlement Act 1988 until its quiet demise in the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, establishing extraterrestrial civilisation was the official goal of the US in space.
The Society's vision is space settlement — "A Spacefaring Civilisation with people living and working in thriving communities beyond Earth" — and my quick and admittedly prejudiced scan of the audience suggested its ethos is that of a fringe movement: open to anybody, amateurs and experts alike, enthusiasts and the slightly nutty.
The space settlement is freer to let nature happen.
However, relatively little attention has been given to the biological implications of a self-sufficient space settlement.
Considerable attention has been focused on various issues associated with the engineering and human health considerations of space settlement such as artificial gravity and radiation shielding.
Furthermore, through an artistic exploration of the local history and legacy of 1970s' space settlement enthusiasm in the San Francisco Bay Area and its ties to the later digital frontier and Green Capitalism, the paper discusses the 1990s as a pivotal transformational period for space and ecology.
However, a fascist collective known as the Settlement Defence Front has arisen, determined to capture all those vital space settlements, strangling supply routes.
Rick Tumlinson is head of the asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries, which aims to be the gas station, building-supply centre and the air-and-water provider for space settlements.
This paper discusses the relation of space and ecology through examples of artistic research on the closed ecological system experiment Biosphere 2 and the history of space settlements.
Finally, this paper suggests relevant directions for future research and development in order for such space settlements to become viable in the future.
Three fundamental questions are explored in this paper: (1) what are the biological "foundations" of truly self-sufficient space settlements in the foreseeable future, (2) what is the minimum scale for such self-sustaining human settlements, and (3) what are the integrated biologically-driven system requirements for such settlements?
