Book Review: NASA’s Discovery Program
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Casey Suire Title: NASA’s Discovery Program: The First Twenty Years of Competitive Planetary Exploration Author: Susan
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A ground breaking new paper on space solar power has just been added to the online NSS Space Solar Power Library The paper is Financial
The NSS Space Solar Power Library is the largest source of information about space solar power on the web and NSS has an onging project
The winners of the grand prize in the 2009 NASA NSS Space Settlement Design Contest have been nicely written up in the press Eric Yam
A new NASA Special Publication SP 4703 entitled Remembering the Space Age was released this month and is now available on the NSS website as
The Special Report 8220 Back to the Moon 8221 from the Summer 2008 issue of the National Space Society magazine Ad Astra is now available
The Naval Research Laboratory NRL this week publicly released a study completed in November 2008 on Space Based Solar Power SBSP This study was initiated
Reviewed by Bart Leahy Title In the Shadow of the Moon Starring Buzz Aldrin Alan Bean Eugene Cernan Michael Collins Charles Duke James Lovell Harrison
Category Non Fiction Reviewed by David Brandt Erichsen Title Where Is Everybody Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox Author Stephen Webb NSS Amazon link for
Category Non Fiction Reviewed by David Brandt Erichsen Title A Traveler 8217 s Guide to Mars The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet Author William
Category Non Fiction Reviewed by David Brandt Erichsen Title Halfway to Anywhere Achieving America 8217 s Destiny in Space Author G Harry Stine NSS Amazon
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Casey Suire Title: NASA’s Discovery Program: The First Twenty Years of Competitive Planetary Exploration Author: Susan
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Peter Spasov Title: The Music of Space: Scoring the Cosmos in Film and Television Author: Chris
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Peter Spasov Title: Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos Author: Lisa
Category: Children’s Books Reviewed by: Susan Raizer Title: An Unlikely Astronaut Author: Susan Kilrain with Francis French Illustrator: Becky Hardy
Image of Kalpana One space settlement courtesy Bryan Versteeg spacehabs com $32 000 in Cash Awards Given for Best Space Related Business Plans Deadline March
Category Nonfiction Reviewed by John J Vester Title Nuclear Rockets To the Moon and Mars Author Manfred Dutch von Ehrenfried Format Paperback Kindle Pages 270
Partially Successful Flight Reached Space and Demonstrated New Hot Staging System The National Space Society congratulates SpaceX on the second test of its Starship Super
Ad Astra the NSS quarterly print digital and audio magazine has won a 2023 MARCOM Gold Award The awards are given yearly for 8220 Excellence
By Jennifer Muntz NSS Member Coordinator On October 10th an inspiring breakfast event took flight at the Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space
By Grant Henriksen NSS Policy Committee Benefit sharing is a concept that refers to the distribution of benefits derived from the exploration and use of
People residing and working in space space settlements or on long duration space flights will need to produce infrastructures and food to maintain healthy lifestyles
Image Artist s concept of the Blue Moon lander Credit Blue Origin Second Human Landing System Contract Encourages Competition and Innovation The National Space Society