July 16, 2009

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A ground-breaking new paper on space solar power has just been added to the online NSS Space Solar Power Library. The paper is: “Financial and

Garver served 9 years as Executive Director of the National Space Society. The National Space Society (NSS) is pleased to congratulate retired Marine Major General

July 19th, 2009. A date that will forever change the way we view space flight. In the arid desert just west of the mountain range

The National Space Society is proud to announce the “launch”, on June 23, 2009, of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s dramatic memoir, Magnificent Desolation –

Time to Boldly Go Once More By Buzz Aldrin, Thursday, July 16, 2009, washingtonpost.com Instead, I propose a new Unified Space Vision, a plan to

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