Book Review: Space Ace
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler Title: Space Ace: A Combat Pilot’s Journey from Vietnam to Beyond Earth Author:
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NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Brevard Workforce are partnering to host a job fair with private...
A new NASA publication is now available for free download from the NSS website: Psychology of Space Exploration — Contemporary Research in Historical Perspective, edited...
The James Webb Telescope, successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, has been cut by the House Appropriations Committee. An amendment to the NASA budget to...
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will enter orbit around the second most massive (but third largest) asteroid in the asteroid belt at around 10 pm Pacific Daylight...
According to National Space Society Director Al Globus, the development of thin-film solar cells may bring the reality of space solar power closer than ever....
National Space Society CEO Mark Hopkins issues the following statment based on his speech at the 2011 International Space Development Conference (see 7-minute video of...
Using small solar satellites that beam power to Earth has recently become a popular idea. Various groups have shown an interest, including the military for...
Statement by the President on the Launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis July 8, 2011 Today, Americans across the country watched with pride as four...
Tools and mechanical parts might be “beamed” up to a space station or a lunar or Mars base using technology that has in recent years...
July 6, 2010: President Obama answers a question about space at his Twitter Town Hall. QUESTION: “Now that the space shuttle is gone, where does...
Australia National University’s Plasma Research Laboratory has received a grant to help build its Helicon Double Layer Thruster (HDLT). If successful, the driver could be...
The cover story of the July 2 edition of The Economist loudly proclaims “The End of the Space Age.” National Space Society Director Al Globus...
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