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Hundreds of students and teachers from the United States and countries across the globe will converge in Puerto Rico next month for the National Space...

Category: Fiction Reviewed by: Robert A. Lee Title: Earth Unaware (The First Formic War) Author: Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston NSS Amazon link for...

Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Loretta Hall Title: Abandoned in Place: Preserving America’s Space History Author: Roland Miller NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover/Kindle...

Category: Children’s Book Reviewed by: Marianne Dyson Title: Saving Mars Author: Cidney Swanson Ages: 10 to YA NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Paperback/Kindle...

Below are two 5-minute videos about the reusable rocket development program of SpaceX. The first video shows the live coverage of the first successful landing...

Elon Musk has made it clear that his mission with SpaceX is to colonize Mars and to help humanity become a multi-planet species. Jeff Bezos...

The National Space Society takes great pleasure in announcing that its 2016 Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award has been won by acclaimed science fiction author...

From NASA, March 1981 photo: “The space shuttle orbiter Columbia is showered with lights in this nocturnal scene at Launch Pad 39A, as preparations are...

With a successful launch on April 8 at 4:43 PM EST, 2016 SpaceX achieved several dramatic milestones on their first supply run to the International...

Mr. Orlando Figueroa is a winner of the National Space Society’s 2016 Space Pioneer Award for non-Legislative Government Service. This award recognizes the work he...

NSS has opened a new website gallery for the 2016 NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement International Student Art Contest. The Grand Prize winning entry, entitled...

By Alyssa Samson Like a page out of a sci-fi novel, balloon-like rooms might be the future of space habitation. On Friday, April 8th, SpaceX...

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