From: utzoo!decvax!cca!REM@MIT-MC@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Independent Space Colonies 
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2986
Posted: Sun Aug 29 04:37:19 1982
Received: Wed Sep  8 03:07:52 1982

From: Robert Elton Maas 
Once we develop space mining (Moon and asteroids etc.) industry (LEO,
L-5, Geosynch, etc.) and habitat, I propose the following way to
homestead with minimal capital investment:
(1) First you work a mine on the Moon or somewhere else by remote control
 from Earth. This is labor not capital investment. You mine enough
 materials to make your cabin in the sky.
(2) Next you work the manufacturing facility by remote control. Most
 of this is automated but some loading and unloading of materials and
 final products as well as final assembly may require human interaction.
(3) Next you remotely-pilot a tug to put your space-cabin in LEO for
 rendesvous with the shuttle.
(4) Finally you stuff yourself like cattle into the cargo bay of the
 shuttle for a people-mover flight, go up, unload into your cabin, and
 now you can move that cabin anywhere within range of the space tug.
Thus you do most of the work "yourself" with computer/robot assistance.