Book Review: A Future Spacefaring Society
We are at the cusp of building an orbital industrial infrastructure and establishing human settlements in space. This book investigates what it takes to do that.
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Blue Origin Spacecraft Image Credit: NASA / Blue Origin Third in our series on the second round of funding in the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev)...
Endeavour at T-Minus 6 Hours Image Credit: NASA TV The launch of Endeavour was scrubbed today due to a failed heater in the APU (Auxiliary...
NASA HL-20 Image Credit: NASA The second round of funding in the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program has been announced by NASA. Sierra Nevada Corporation...
Boeing CST-100 Image Credit: Boeing NASA announced the second round of funding in the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program. Boeing was the big winner in...
The Grand Prize for the 2011 NASA/NSS Space Settlement Contest went to a team of seven high school students from Punjab, India, for their double-torus...
In recognition of SpaceX’s groundbreaking year in 2010, with the successful launch of two Falcon 9 rockets, and the safe return of its Dragon capsule,...
Falcon Heavy will lift more than twice as much as any other launch vehicle See video of full press conference. WASHINGTON – Today, Elon Musk,...
SENIOR INDIAN RESEARCHER BACKS JOINT US-INDIA DEVELOPMENT OF SPACE SOLAR POWER – A MULTI-NATIONAL POWER SOURCE Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, a Senior Fellow at India’s...
The NSS International Space Development Conference (ISDC) will be this May 18-22 at the Von Braun Center and Embassy Suites Hotel and Spa in Huntsville,...
The 30th International Space Development Conference (ISDC), the annual gathering of the National Space Society (NSS), is coming to the Von Braun Center in Huntsville...
Attention all teachers: Free copies of The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by the late Princeton physicist Gerard K. O’Neill are being offered to...
by Brian Cleaver “I am definitely in.” It was these four words that I had said to Rick Zucker, Executive Vice President of the National...
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