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By Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto It is only fitting that just before humanity celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the surface of

[For Space Settlement Blog Day, July 20, 2009] Can we afford to settle space? A concomitant question is “Can we afford NOT to settle space?”

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 and

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

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 a

The Special Report “Back to the Moon” from the Summer 2008 issue of the National Space Society magazine Ad Astra is now available online. The

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 by

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 Format: Hardcover Pages: 288 Publisher: Copernicus

Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: David Brandt-Erichsen Title: A Traveler’s Guide to Mars: The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet Author: William K. Hartmann NSS Amazon

Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: David Brandt-Erichsen Title: Halfway to Anywhere: Achieving America’s Destiny in Space Author: G. Harry Stine NSS Amazon link for this book

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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 Publisher:

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 Heavy

Ad Astra, the NSS quarterly print, digital, and audio magazine, has won a 2023 MARCOM Gold Award. The awards are given yearly for “Excellence in

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. The

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 congratulates

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