Eric Yam Wins Space Settlement Design Contest 2009

Posted by A.R. Van Halleorg on 2009/05/08 5 comments

And all over Canada is the media proudly showing off their latest bright up and comer, Eric Yam, from Nothern Secondary School in Toronto, Ontario.

Voila, a 92 page PDF file of ASTEN, the intergalactic settlement designed by Eric Yam. Going into quite a large amount of detail that I won’t get into in this post, it is definitely worth the read. Using the technologies that are currently available to us as both tried & tested and experimental, he shows the ways that this kind of settlement could work quite efficiently. Approximate time for building this settlement : 30 years. Approximate cost : $500 million USD+.

Let me know what you think!

Space city an idealized Toronto – The Star
Toronto student’s space colony design wins NASA contest - CBC News
Teen’s intergalactic Canada takes top prize in space contest - Globe and Mail

Image created by Eric Yam. Property of (Eric Yam / NASA)

Image created by Eric Yam. Property of (Eric Yam / NASA)