June 2016

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Thanks to National Space Society’s affiliate the International Space Elevator Consortium, we have substantially updated and expanded our Space Elevator Library. Check it out!

You are cordially invited to join the 2016 Annual ASD/NSS/SFF August Home District Blitz congressional action event. This event supports the 2016 Alliance for Space

The National Space Society celebrates the life and contributions of a visionary champion of the commercial space industry and human space settlement, the Honorable Patricia

Over 1000 visitors were introduced to the ambitious Enterprise In Space (EIS) program at Space Day recently held June 4 at the Smithsonian’s National Air

Category: Fiction Reviewed by: Robert A. Lee Title: Poseidon’s Wake Author: Alastair Reynolds NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle Pages: 608 Publisher: Ace

By Gloria Lloyd Since the International Space Development Conference will be in St. Louis in May, 2017, it is appropriate to learn about the St.

by Christine Nobbe, EdS, NBCT ISDC® 2017 Conference Chair St. Louis Union Station Hotel, “the grandest station in the Nation,” is the chosen site for

From NASA: “This photograph of the sun, taken on Dec. 19, 1973, during the third and final manned Skylab mission (Skylab 4), shows one of

BEAM was pressurized May 28 on the International Space Station, where it will remain attached for a two-year test period. The module measured just over

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