This page collects all our papers and fragments so far issued in the frame of the Space Renaissance discussion.
We are working on such materials, in order to compose a coherent foundation paper on the Astronautical Humanist philosophy; all comments and contributes will be welcome.
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SPACE RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY FRAGMENTS


#	Title	Date	Author
F001	“Why to save Human Civilization? – Astro-Humanism – A philosophical contribution to the SRI Manifesto“	August 10th 2009	M. Martin-Smith
F002	“Why to save Human Civilization?” – discussion on the SRI google group	August 24th 2009 – September 3rd 2009	M. Martin-Smith, Sandijs Aploks, Mark Wallach, Keith Henson, Al Globus, Vicente Werner, Craig Holm, G.B. Leatherwood, Douglas Mallette, Eric Hunting, Anna Hill
F003	“The Solar System: a living organism?“	July 24th 2009	A. Autino
F004	“Why the Astronautic Humanism is necessary“	August 8th 2009	A. Autino
F005	“Why the Astronautic Humanism is necessary” – discussion on the SRI google group	August 8th 2009 – August 19th 2009	A. Autino, M. Martin-Smith, Keith Henson, Al Globus, Vicente erner, G.B. Leatherwood, P. Collins
F006	“The value of human life”	February 2nd 2005	A. Autino
F007	“A space age or a (new) stone age”	August 5th 2004	A. Autino
F008	“A corpse is not a good customer!”	June 2nd 2004	A. Autino
F009	“But the culture of infanticide belongs to the monotheist world”	January 1st 2002	A. Autino
F010	“Reaching for the Stars – Past and Future”	June 7th 2008	M. Martin-Smith
F011	“Global Warming or Global Stunning?”	December 2nd 2007	A. Autino
F012	“Climate change and the limits of science”	December 2nd 2007	V. Zappalà
F013	“Astronautic Evolution “ – Monthly newsletter general index	–	Stephen Ashworth
F014	“Los Angeles Chronicle Exopolitics and Abstract Truths”	November 11th 2009	Stephanie L. Thorburn
F015	“Efficacious Duality- The Space Renaissance, Brian May & Rock’s Innovative Educators.”	January 11th 2011	Stephanie L. Thorburn
F016	“3D Printing Technology for a Moon Outpost Exploiting Lunar Soil”	2010	Enrico Dini, F. Ceccanti
F017	“Space Fellowship about the Space Renaissance – First International Congress”	June 17th 2011	Stephanie Lynne Thorburn
F018	“Mex-Lunarhab (MLH): a Lunar Habitat Analogue in the State of Jalisco” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (*)	2011	Jesus B. Raygoza
F019	“Nurturing Human Progress- Space Renaissance Congress 2011”	August 4th 2011	Stephanie Lynne Thorburn
F020	“SPACE RENAISSANCE, Dawn of a new age of civilization”	August 6th 2011	Walter C. Putnam
F021	“ELON MUSK: THE REAL LIFE TONY STARK”	June 10th 2012	Online Graduate Programs
F022	“Avatar, a movie of this time”	January 23th 2010	Adriano V. Autino
F023	“James Cameron’s “Avatar” – film review”	February 28th 2010	Stephen Ashworth
F024	“The battle for the future”	December 1st 2011	Stephen Ashworth
F025	"A plan for mercantile astronautics"	February 20th 1999	Adriano V. Autino
F026	"Voices"	1999	Diana Baroni & Michael Martin-Smith
F027	"Interview for Space Renaissance Academy Mentorship Programme" Transcript	July 2020	Paul Ziolo & Mika Curtis
F028	"The Elysium effect: The coming backlash to the billionaire 'NewSpace' revolution" Transcript	October 2020	Rick Tumlinson (on space.com)
F029	Open letter to G20	March 30th 2009	Adriano V. Autino and the SRI Board of Directors
F030	An Open Letter to UNISPACE+50 Conference	June 25th 2018	Adriano V. Autino and the SRI Board of Directors
F031	Open letter to the United Nations In view of the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Outer Space Treaty, October 10, 1967	October 10th 2017	Space Renaissance International, Lifeboat Foundation, Greater Earth, Team Synergy Moon, Space Renaissance Academy, Human Synergy Project, Space Development Foundation
F032	Development is a human right – an open letter to United Nations	September, 17th 2016	Space Renaissance International
F033	A Planet B strategy, taking care of Planet A! – An open letter to the UN COP26 Conference – Glasgow 2021	October 10th 2021	Space Renaissance International, Space Tourism Society, Space Development Foundation, Space Development Steering Committee, Lifeboat Foundation, Mars Moon Astronautics & Academy Research Science, International Lunar Exploration Working Group
F034	Asteroids & Comets as Energy and Material Resources	February 3rd 2022	Thomas Arendt
F035	The Elysium effect: The coming backlash to the billionaire 'NewSpace' revolution	October 20 2020	Rick Tumlinson

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SPACE RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY PAPERS


#	title	date	author(s)
P001	“THE SPACE RENAISSANCE MANIFESTO”	August 29th 2009	See the Paper’s cover page
P002	“What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace”	May 25th 2008	P. Collins & A. Autino
P003	“Founding a New Renaissance”	June 7th 2008	A. Autino
P004	“Can Space Save the Planet? – A wrong and dangerous question?”	March 25th 2009	Michael Martin-Smith
P005	“A Unified Space Vision”	March 29th 2009	F. Hsu & Ken Cox
P006	“The Copernican Evidence – Requirements for a Space Age Philosophy”(paper presented at the 53rd IAF Congress- Houston october 2002)	October 2002	A. Autino
P007	“The Fifth Season – the Space ‘Bingo’ Surprises: very profitable and not obvious Gifts of Space” – IAC-05-E1.P.03 (paper presented at IAF 56th congress, Fukuoka 2005)	Ocotber 17th 2005	A. Autino
P008	“Gaian Science, Gaian Philosophy, Gaian Spirituality and the Rainbow Way”	April 16th 2005	D. Buth
P009	“The Pregnant Earth” (collection of different papers, from the old Technologies of the Frontier websote)	–	A. Autino, David L. Buth, Arthur Woods, Steve Wolfe, Sylvia Engdahl, Michael Martin-Smith
P010	“Gaia/Mother Earth Mythology”	1995	S. Engdahl
P011	“Mother Earth and the Butterfly”	April 10th 2005	M. Martin-Smith
P012	“SEEDS Synergizing Earth’s Evolutionary Development Spacewards” Paper IAA-97-IAA-8.2.04 presented at the 48th International Astronautical Congress, Turin, Italy, 1997 (Updated 2005)	1997 – 2005	Arthur Woods
P013	“Why Implementing the Space Option Is Necessary for Society”	October 6th 1997	Marco C. Bernasconi & Cristina Bernasconi
P014	“How the 21st-Century Society Can Sustain the Implementation of the Space Option”	August 11th 1997	Marco C. Bernasconi & Cristina Bernasconi
P015	“Space Quotes to Ponder”	October 30th 2006	Sylvia Engdahl
P016	“Space Settlement: The Journey Inward” – paper presented at the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference, Oklahoma City	May 29th 2004	Steven Wolfe
P017	“Humankind: GAIA’s Johnny Appleseed” – Space Front, a publication of the Space Frontier Foundation	June 2003	Steven Wolfe
P018	“The Greater Earth Manifesto – Concepts for a New Humanistic vision of the World”	May 30th 1998	A. Autino, Marco C. Bernasconi, Daniel Christlein, M. Martin-Smith, Arthur Woods, Stephen Ashworth
P019	“Creating a Solar Civilization”	October 30th 2006	Kim Peart
P020	“Futures”	2000	Paul Ziolo
P021	“The Astrosociological Imagination and the Space Renaissance Initiative – A Discourse Analytical Perspective”	2010	Stephanie Lynne Thorburn
P022	“The Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory and the Hundred Million Year Outlook for Homo Sapiens”	2011	Stephen Ashworth
P023	“The Astrosociological Imagination - the Space Renaissance Initiative’ Anthology e-book.”	2012	Stephanie Lynne Thorburn
P024	“Facing the 21st Century’s Civilization Challenges by the Tools of Astronautic Humanism”	October 2012	Adriano V. Autino
P025	“Space Renaissance, a Plan for Moon/Earth/Lagrange Region Industrialization”	October 2009	A. V. Autino, P. Collins, C. Radley, F. Hsu, S. Moss, G. Russo, M. Dudziak, A. Kotarsky, R. Wright, B. Agravat, T. Heenatigala, A. Woods
P026	“The expansion of Civilization beyond Earth is a moral issue” – by Adriano V. Autino – also published on theJournal of Space Philosophy (vol. #3 Fall 2013)	October 2013	Adriano V. Autino
P027	“Implications for Social Science Development of the Growth of the “NewSpace” Industry”	February 7th 2014	Patrick Q. Collins
P028	“Risk Analysis of Climate Change, and Potential SPS Contribution to Global Warming or Global Cooling mitigation”	February 13th 2014	Patrick Q. Collins, Marco C. Bernasconi
P029	“A Position Paper on Civilian Space Development and Space Technology”	December 17th 2016	A. V. Autino, A. Sinclair, SRI Board
P030	Building in Space: first steps in civil expansion beyond Earth	September 18th 2018	Adriano V. Autino, Stefano Ferretti, Luigina Feretti, Alfredo Roma, Stefano Antonetti
P031	A model of anthropo-sphere expansion	2015	Adriano V. Autino, Patrick Q. Collins
P032	"Is the surface of a planet really the right place for expanding technological civilization?"	1975	A Stewart Brand’s interview with Gerard K. O'Neill
P033	Expand or Die	July 2020	Adriano V. Autino, on Global Risk Reduction (American Mensa)
P034	"Space colonization remains the only long-term option for humanity: A reply to Torres"	January 2019	Milan M. Ćirković, on Futures
P035	Astronism: Heading Starward & the Astronomical Beliefs of Cometan	March 2021	Brandon R. Taylorian, the Cometan
P036	Congress Thesis 1 – Status of civilization and perspective of expansion into outer space	June 26th 2021	Adriano V. Autino, Amalie Sinclair, Alberto Cavallo, Kevin Myrick, Corrinne Graham, Manuel Perez, Susan Jewell, Jim Crisafulli, Joe Pelton, Jerry Stone, Jonathan Tate, Walt Putnam
P037	Congress Thesis 2 – A strategy to develop the Space Renaissance, towards 2025	May 27th 2021	Adriano V. Autino
P038	Countering Objections to Space Settlement	May 2021	Al Globus
P039	On To The Lunar Olympics!	May 31st 2021	Patrick Collins, Makoto Arai
P040	A Gas Strategy for Space Settlement	May 30th 2021	Adriano V. Autino, et Al
P041	Profitable industrial activities to be developed in Earth Orbit	May 11th 2021	Adriano V. Autino, et Al
P042	Psychohistory and Humanity’s Interstellar Future	June 24th 2021	Paul Ziolo
P043	Why space exploration will be soon unsustainable, without a serious civilian space settlement programme	October 25th 2021	Adriano V. Autino, et Al
P044	From space exploration, to suborbital space tourism, to living and working in space: evolution of the mission requirements	October 25th 2021	Adriano V. Autino, et Al
P045	Global expansion vs. space exploration, a full change of paradigm	October 26th 2021	Adriano V. Autino, et Al
P046	Why the Civilian Space Development shall kick-off now	September 2022	Adriano V. Autino, et Al
P047	Space Renaissance Academy - the Space Renaissance Ambassadors Programme	September 2022	Adriano V. Autino, et Al
P048	The Value of Human Patrimony: a 100% Inclusive Vision	September 2022	Adriano V. Autino, et Al
P049	New credit tools and tax concepts for the opening of the space frontier Paper presented at IAC 51 2000, Rio de Janeiro	October 2000	Adriano V. Autino
P050	Orbital Debris: a great business opportunity Paper presented at IAC74, Baku	October 2023	Adriano V. Autino, Alfred Anzaldúa, Bernard Foing
P051	The role of governments space agencies and industry in kicking off civilian space development	December 2023	Alberto Cavallo
P052	Concepts for a World Space Program based in the Society Paper presented at IAC 49, Melbourne, Australia	October 1998	Adriano V. Autino, et Al
P053	A SRI position paper on the key critical issues before 2030 A necessary mid-term actualization, 2 years after the 3rd SRI World Congress	February 2024	Adriano V. Autino, Alberto Cavallo, Amalie Sinclair, Bernard Foing, Dennis O’Brien, Ghanim Alotaibi, Jerry Stone, Marie-Luise Heuser, Thomas Matula, Werner Grandl, Wes Faires

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SPACE RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY BOOKS


#	Title	Date	Author(s)
B001	“Salto nello spazio” ( “Jump Into Space “) – Tre Editori, Roma	2001	M. Martin-Smith
B002	“La Terra non è malata: è incinta!” (“Earth is not sick: She’s Pregnant!”) – Arduino Sacco Editore, Roma	2008	A. Autino
B003	“Three Theses for the Space Renaissance”– lulu.com	January 2011	A. Autino, P. Collins, A. Cavallo
B004	“Space Renaissance International First Congress – The Complete Acta”– lulu.com	January 2014	A. Autino
B005	“From Space Exploration to Space Settlement” - SRI 2nd World Congress 2016 – Theses and acta	December 2016	A. Autino
B006	"The Obligation"	2015	S. Wolfe
B007	"A greater world is possible: the expansion of civilization beyond the limits of our home planet is the moral issue of our time"	2018	A. Autino