Space Settlements: A Design Study

[Astronuc]

This might be helpful for Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering students

http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/75SummerStudy/Table_of_Contents1.html

APPENDIX M
SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/75SummerStudy/4appendM.html

 

[Intuitive]

This might be helpful for Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering students
http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/75SummerStudy/Table_of_Contents1.html
APPENDIX M
SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/75SummerStudy/4appendM.html

Maybe we'll convert large asteroids into space stations in the future, It's possible that some larger asteroids would have a small thermal core that could be tapped for thermal electric power and the mass of the asteroid acting as some protective shielding from the environment in space and have a ready supply of ore to build with.

Residential asteroids
Commercial asteroids
Industrial asteroids

If the asteroid could be moved to favorable positions in space then it would also benifit us.