Book Review: Reality Check
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Dale Skran Title: Reality Check Authors: Brad Wieners and David Pescovitz Format: Paperback Pages: 161 Publisher:
March 2019
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Author Kim Stanley Robinson writes of turmoil, strife, political revolution and poetry on a Moon mostly settled by China. A sensory novel delivering the experience...
Astronaut Eileen Collins has two major space firsts, the first woman to be a space shuttle pilot and the first to be a space shuttle...
The last six months have brought us two major movies about Apollo 11, and some of its figures: First Man (released October 2018), and Apollo...
The National Space Society (NSS) is pleased to announce the election of Geoffrey Notkin as NSS President. We interview Geoffrey below. INTRODUCTION Probably best known...
By George Mancuso After five days in orbit Crew Dragon Demo-1 undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and completed a picture-perfect landing with splashdown...
The documentary Searching For Skylab, released on Vimeo on March 5th, is a treasure trove of as-yet-unseen archival footage of the much-underrated early 1970s U.S....
By Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President With today’s complete success of the Demonstration Mission-1 uncrewed test of the Dragon 2 crew capsule, it seemed...
The NSS Tucson Chapter (the Tucson L5 Space Society) for the sixth year in a row had a booth at the Tucson Festival of Books...
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