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.
Jim Plaxco
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By Jim PlaxcoNSS Board of Directors The National Space Society (NSS), in partnership with the SmallSat Education Conference, recently concluded another successful Roadmap to Space...
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