HALE: A Flexible Approach to Settlement of the Solar System

摘要

The Solar System has vast resources that have the potential to greatly benefit humanity. But developing those resources presents major challenges ranging from the limitations of human physiology to the lack of celestial bodies suitable for human habitation. The Habitat Automatous Locomotive Expandable (HALE) is offered as one solution to these challenges. Built initially at the Earth-Moon Lagrange Points, the HALE will be capable of reaching the most remote reaches of the Solar System where it will supply stable and safe habitation and major capabilities, for both scientific research and resource development.