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[For Space Settlement Blog Day, July 20, 2009] Can we afford to settle space? A concomitant question is “Can we afford NOT to settle space?”...
We have 34 blogs participating. This is a great success. What a great way to honor the Apollo 11 landing. Please let us know which...
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...
Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: David Brandt-Erichsen Title: Lunar Outpost: The Challenges of Establishing a Human Settlement on the Moon Author: Erik Seedhouse NSS Amazon link...
PROVIDE YOUR INPUT TO THE AUGUSTINE COMMISSION This spring, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy asked NASA to launch a commission tasked...
The NSS Space Solar Power Library is the largest source of information about space solar power on the web, and NSS has an onging project...
Space Settlement Blog Day is on July 20th. I want to thank David Brandt-Erichsen, Charles Radley and Brice Russ for making Space Settlement Blog Day...
Japan Shooting For Space-Based Solar Power The hope is to commercialize orbital solar power by 2030. Such a system would have such advantages as generating...
Back in 1966, Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon. Apogee Books has provided an English-language NASA translation of a detailed report originally released by the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Meyer’s academic textbook is loaded with numerous photographs, diagrams, charts, and graphs. There are chapters on subjects such as farm machines, animal and fungi production, plant and algae production, and space menus. The farming techniques outlined in the book can be applied to lunar, Martian, or rotating space settlements.
Apogee Books has reissued its volume on Surveyor for the program’s 60th anniversary. The book is a wonder, containing a veritable treasure trove of documents on every conceivable facet of the Surveyor program.
We are at the cusp of building an orbital industrial infrastructure and establishing human settlements in space. This book investigates what it takes to do that.
The National Space Society (NSS) enthusiastically welcomes NASA’s proposed PROMISE lunar lander, a bold step forward in expanding scientific access, mobility, and capability across the...
By Burt Dicht NSS Space Coast Correspondent Image: Starship 13 after “landing” in the Indian Ocean. Last week I had the opportunity to speak to...
Today, on the 57th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing, this inspiring song commemorating the past and the future of our presence on the Moon...
The National Space Society (NSS) today announced that it is delivering a letter to Congress and the Administration addressing concerns and recommendations regarding NASA’s draft...
