Ad Astra Winter 2019

Ad Astra 2019 Winter (Volume 31 Number 1)

  • 15
    Throwing Pebbles at the Sky
    TANYA OF MARS
    By Geoffrey Notkin
  • 18
    ACHIEVING GREATNESS:
    Three Factors that Produced a “First Man”
    By Anthony Paustian
  • 21
    NASA’S NEWEST ROADMAP TO DEEP SPACE
    By John F. Kross
  • 28
    SEARCHING FOR A SECOND EARTH
    By Clifford R. McMurray
  • 34
    SPACE 2.0 BOOK EXCERPT
    CHAPTER 16: SETTLING THE FINAL FRONTIER
    By Geoff Notkin
  • 37
    GAINING INSIGHT INTO MARS
    By Rod Pyle
  • 42
    GLIMPSING THE “TIPPING POINT”
    at the Space Settlement Summit 2018

    By Al Anzaldua
  • 46
    THE TIME HAS COME FOR SPACE SOLAR POWER
    By John C. Mankins
  • 50
    HOW 2018 BECAME THE FIRST YEAR OF SPACE
    By Dale Skran
  • 7
    ON MISSION SUCCESS: A Message from the New Editor
    By Rod Pyle
  • 13
    From the Executive Committee Chair
    A $178 MILLION INFUSION FOR SPACE SOLAR POWER
    By Mark Hopkins
  • 54
    NSS CHAPTER EVENTS REACH THOUSANDS
    By Claire Stephens McMurray
  • 58
    BOOKS

    The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
    , by Christian Davenport
    Reviewed by Clifford R. McMurray

    Interplanetary Robots: True Stories of Space Exploration, by Rod Pyle
    Reviewed by Martin J. Lollar

    The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, by Roger Launius
    Reviewed by Rod Pyle

    The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
    , by John Logsdon
    Reviewed by Rod Pyle

  • 61
    MOVIE REVIEW
    First Man
    Reviewed by Emily Carney

  • 63
    NSS CHAPTERS

Ad Astra 2019 Winter (Volume 31 Number 1)

  • 15
    Throwing Pebbles at the Sky
    TANYA OF MARS
    By Geoffrey Notkin
  • 18
    ACHIEVING GREATNESS:
    Three Factors that Produced a “First Man”
    By Anthony Paustian
  • 21
    NASA’S NEWEST ROADMAP TO DEEP SPACE
    By John F. Kross
  • 28
    SEARCHING FOR A SECOND EARTH
    By Clifford R. McMurray
  • 34
    SPACE 2.0 BOOK EXCERPT
    CHAPTER 16: SETTLING THE FINAL FRONTIER
    By Geoff Notkin
  • 37
    GAINING INSIGHT INTO MARS
    By Rod Pyle
  • 42
    GLIMPSING THE “TIPPING POINT”
    at the Space Settlement Summit 2018

    By Al Anzaldua
  • 46
    THE TIME HAS COME FOR SPACE SOLAR POWER
    By John C. Mankins
  • 50
    HOW 2018 BECAME THE FIRST YEAR OF SPACE
    By Dale Skran
  • 7
    ON MISSION SUCCESS: A Message from the New Editor
    By Rod Pyle
  • 13
    From the Executive Committee Chair
    A $178 MILLION INFUSION FOR SPACE SOLAR POWER
    By Mark Hopkins
  • 54
    NSS CHAPTER EVENTS REACH THOUSANDS
    By Claire Stephens McMurray
  • 58
    BOOKS

    The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
    , by Christian Davenport
    Reviewed by Clifford R. McMurray

    Interplanetary Robots: True Stories of Space Exploration, by Rod Pyle
    Reviewed by Martin J. Lollar

    The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, by Roger Launius
    Reviewed by Rod Pyle

    The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
    , by John Logsdon
    Reviewed by Rod Pyle

  • 61
    MOVIE REVIEW
    First Man
    Reviewed by Emily Carney

  • 63
    NSS CHAPTERS