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By Gloria Lloyd Since the International Space Development Conference will be in St. Louis in May, 2017, it is appropriate to learn about the St....
by Christine Nobbe, EdS, NBCT ISDC® 2017 Conference Chair St. Louis Union Station Hotel, “the grandest station in the Nation,” is the chosen site for...
BEAM was pressurized May 28 on the International Space Station, where it will remain attached for a two-year test period. The module measured just over...
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Enterprise In Space (EIS), an international program of the National Space Society (NSS), is excited to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...
Category: Fiction Reviewed by: Brian Enke Title: Star Racers: Win the Race. Save Your Planet. Author: Martin Felando NSS Amazon link for this book Format:...
Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Claire Stephens McMurray From Ad Astra Spring 2016 Title: A Passion for Space: Adventures of a Pioneering Female NASA Flight Controller...
Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Christopher Skillman From Ad Astra Spring 2016 Title: Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age Editor: Doug Millard NSS Amazon link for...
Pete Worden, former director of NASA Ames Research Center, will present “Starshot, Mission to Alpha Centauri,” at the Thursday (May 19) luncheon during the National...
SpaceX is the winner of the National Space Society’s 2016 Space Pioneer Award for Science and Engineering. This award recognizes the company’s recent major achievement,...
By NSS Member Bradley Williams It was a chilly December morning; I was 10 years old and sitting on the cold, hard floor of my...
The NSS Space Ambassadors Program is a venue to allow people worldwide to communicate the benefits of space exploration to our daily lives and to...
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