Ad Astra 2024 Fall
- 12
RED MOON
Will the Next “Sputnik Moment” be Made in China
By John F. Kross and Rod Pyle - 66
GEOPOLITICAL RESILIENCE
How Space Exploration Can Help Us Build Geopolitical Resilience
By Dylan Taylor - 20
LIVING IN MARTIAN MUSHROOMS
An Alternative Building Material for Space Habitats
By Rod Pyle - 27
OPUS MOON
Everyone’s Gone Lunar
By John F. Kross - 38
ALMOST SPACE
Space Perspective Offers a Novel Alteernative to Traditional Spaceflight
By Douglas Graham Adler - 44
JOURNEY TO AN ICE WORLD
NASA’s Europa Clipper
By Jordan Strickler - 47
PAINTING THE FUTURE
The Interstellar Art of Pat Rawlings
By Melissa Silva - 51
QUENCHING THE DRAGON’S FIRE
Remediation of the Van Allen Belts
By Don Wilkins - 58
THE “SPACE PROM”
The 67th Goddard Memorial Dinner
By Dale Skran - ARTFUL VISIONS OF TOMORROW
The NSS Roadmap to Space Art Contest
By Lynne F. Zielinski
- 8
From the Editor:
HERE’S TO 2025 IN SPACE
By Rod Pyle - 9
From the NSS President:
THE MUSHROOM HABITATS OF MERCURY
By Isaac Arthur - 11
From the NSS COO:
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
By Dale Skran - 66
NSS CHAPTERS
- Red Moon Rising
By Greg Autry and Peter Navarro
Reviewed by Dale Skran - The Spacelab Story: Science Aboard the Shuttle
by Ben Evans
Reviewed by Mark Lardas - From the Garage to Mars: Memoir of a Space Entrepreneur
By Scott Tibbits
Reviewed by Susan Raizer - The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Era, and Public Engagement
By Amy Paige Kaminsky
Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler - Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
By Eric Berger
Reviewed by Casey Suire
Ad Astra 2024 Summer
- 12
RED MOON
Will the Next “Sputnik Moment” be Made in China
By John F. Kross and Rod Pyle - 66
GEOPOLITICAL RESILIENCE
How Space Exploration Can Help Us Build Geopolitical Resilience
By Dylan Taylor - 20
LIVING IN MARTIAN MUSHROOMS
An Alternative Building Material for Space Habitats
By Rod Pyle - 27
OPUS MOON
Everyone’s Gone Lunar
By John F. Kross - 38
ALMOST SPACE
Space Perspective Offers a Novel Alteernative to Traditional Spaceflight
By Douglas Graham Adler - 44
JOURNEY TO AN ICE WORLD
NASA’s Europa Clipper
By Jordan Strickler - 47
PAINTING THE FUTURE
The Interstellar Art of Pat Rawlings
By Melissa Silva - 51
QUENCHING THE DRAGON’S FIRE
Remediation of the Van Allen Belts
By Don Wilkins - 58
THE “SPACE PROM”
The 67th Goddard Memorial Dinner
By Dale Skran - ARTFUL VISIONS OF TOMORROW
The NSS Roadmap to Space Art Contest
By Lynne F. Zielinski
- 8
From the Editor:
HERE’S TO 2025 IN SPACE
By Rod Pyle - 9
From the NSS President:
THE MUSHROOM HABITATS OF MERCURY
By Isaac Arthur - 11
From the NSS COO:
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
By Dale Skran - 66
NSS CHAPTERS
- Red Moon Rising
By Greg Autry and Peter Navarro
Reviewed by Dale Skran - The Spacelab Story: Science Aboard the Shuttle
by Ben Evans
Reviewed by Mark Lardas - From the Garage to Mars: Memoir of a Space Entrepreneur
By Scott Tibbits
Reviewed by Susan Raizer - The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Era, and Public Engagement
By Amy Paige Kaminsky
Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler - Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
By Eric Berger
Reviewed by Casey Suire
