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By George Mancuso On March 2, 2019 at 02:49:03 Eastern Time (07:49 UTC) a Dragon 2 spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center atop a...
This is an 8-minute video that summarizes the first launch of Dragon 2 and the post-launch press conference featuring SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and NASA...
By Emily Carney Dr. Greg Autry has this week been appointed to the newly created position of NSS Vice President for Space Development. In this...
Children love nursery rhymes and Hey-Ho to Mars We’ll Go is a captivating version of the classic, The Farmer in the Dell. Parents or other...
By Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President The first six satellites of a constellation that could number up 2,000 rocketed to orbit February 27th on...
The wait is over! In the new book just released today, Space 2.0, space historian and Ad Astra editor Rod Pyle, in collaboration with the...
Image: Artist concept of the Beresheet lander on the Moon. Credit: SpaceIL. By Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President Rather than repeating the facts about...
Image: VSS Unity in space with wings feathered, February 22, 2019. Image courtesy of Virgin Galactic. By Bob Brodbeck This morning Friday February 22nd Virgin...
This excellent 9-minute TED talk on space solar power is presented by Paul Jaffe, PhD, of the Naval Research Laboratory Space Engineering Department. Paul does...
OPINION by Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President This is an update to a January 21 post that generated some controversy in the comments section....
This is the memoir of Dr. Dave Williams, a Canadian astronaut and former Director of Space and Life Sciences at NASA. An overarching message of...
OPINION by Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President On October 10th, 2018, the Air Force announced the funding recipients for National Security Space Launch program,...
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