If you haven't yet watched the video of SSI President Gary Hudson's "Gravity is a Massive Problem", scroll down two posts right now and check it out. We'll wait here. Great presentation, an important issue that SSI would like to keep rolling, but its future is up to you. If you feel that developing G-Lab is an important project that is needed as part of the High Frontier Concept, then please make a tax-deductible contribution today. Any amount you can give can help a great deal. And now, we would like to offer you some extra holiday me-time pleasure. For free :-). Do you like to read great books? Imagine a book with contributors and characters including: Gerard K. O'Neill, Dr. Freeman Dyson, Gregg Maryniak, Dr. Brian O'Leary, Eric Drexler, William C. Brown, Lee Snively, John Lewis, Dr. Henry Kolm, Brandt Goldsworthy, Dr. T. Stephen Cheston, Rick Tumlinson, Dr. James C. Fletcher, John Mankins, Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller, Dr. Peter Jankowitsch, Morris Hornik, Dr. Thomas O. Paine, James D. Burke, David C. Webb, David Odom, Frank White, Richard G. Woodbridge III, Dr. Yash Pal, Charlie Walker, George Gallop, Jr., Dr. Jerry Gray, Dr. Lee Valentine, Peter Diamandis, Dr. Ben Finney, James Vedda, Gordon Woodcock, Dr. Robert Waldron, Dr. Klaus Heiss, Dr. James E. Byassee, Dr. Frank Press, Robert Staehle, Dr. Peter Glaser, Gary "G.C." Hudson … and tens, if not hundreds, of others. Imagine a book that starts with the simple question "Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?" and takes you on a tour through a history of the Engineering, the Sciences and the soul of the Space Community. Topics move you through Space Colonization, Mass-Drivers, Large (very large) Space Manufacturing, Anthropology, Lunar Chemical processing, Space Solar Power and Power Beaming, Gravity effects on off-Earth human beings, Rocketry, Asteroids for profit and homesteading, Space Debris solutions, the many faces of NASA, Regolith simulant creation, Closed-loop life support, launches of satellites giving location information years before we all heard of GPS, off-Earth Composites, the creation of the International Space University and SEDS, meetings with and letters from Presidents (ones that some people even liked), Costs of doing Space Business, the origins of the conferences that Space-folk take for granted today, and on… and on… This is a "book" decades in the making, and still being written. A mix of down-to-Earth hard effort and inspiring Vision. This "book" is: The Archive of the Newsletters of The Space Studies Institute. And it's free. For you. Now. It starts with a hand-typed letter on Princeton University Physics Department letterhead and, as of this posting, continues to all of the more "slick" issues of 1989. More pages are being assembled, but the 50+ issues already waiting should keep you well occupied through the holidays. To see the current "chapters" of this book that was built on and to support the foundation of The High Frontier Concept, visit the SSI Newsletter Archive. But to get the very most out of this special resource, we invite you to start at the beginning and see it all unfold. Start with the July 7th 1974 "Newsletter on Space Colonization". To all of SSI's Senior Associates and Members and old and new dear friends, the staff and board and trustees of The Space Studies Institute wishes the Happiest of Holidays and a powerful 2016. We all donate our time and effort, but no projects can continue without continued contributions and membership of people who have run the numbers themselves and see the reality in the The High Frontier Concept. It's not just 'giant space stations,' it's much bigger than that. Thank you for your many years of continued support.