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The CubeSat Structures Competition invites students from around the world to help advance the state of the art of new space technology by designing new

Image New Shepard capsule after successful landing showing large windows with 8220 Mannequin Skywalker 8221 visible Credit Blue Origin UPDATE On December 19th Blue Origin

Chasing Space An Astronaut s Story of Grit Grace and Second Chances by Leland Melvin 2017 Melvin calls himself the unexpected astronaut and this book
Arkwright by Allen Steele 2016 The Arkwright foundation sends a robotic ship with frozen human gametes to an exoplanet twenty two light years from Earth
Women Spacefarers Sixty Different Paths to Space by Umberto Cavallaro 2017 Biographies of sixty women who have flown in space Reviewed by Susan Raizer
Apollo Pilot The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele by Donn Eisele 2017 Memoir of the pilot of the first Apollo flight into space published thirty

Category Nonfiction Reviewed by Robert A Lee Title Exploring the Martian Moons A Human Mission to Deimos and Phobos Author Manfred Dutch von Ehrenfried NSS

Reviewed by Robert A Lee Title The Value of the Moon Author Paul D Spudis NSS Amazon link for this book Format Hardcover Pages 272

Walking on the Sea of Clouds by Gray Rinehart 2017 A hard science fiction novel gritty and realistic about the first commercial colony on the
Europa s Lost Expedition by Michael Carroll 2016 Carroll s thoughtful storytelling extrapolated from real science turns Jupiter s moon Europa into a real place

Category Fiction Reviewed by Mark Lardas Title Mission Tomorrow New Stories of the Future of Space Exploration Editor Bryan Thomas Schmidt NSS Amazon link for

By Dale Skran NSS Executive Vice President The last two months of 2017 are shaping up as a very exciting time for space development On

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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

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

Ad Astra the NSS quarterly print digital and audio magazine has won a 2023 MARCOM Gold Award The awards are given yearly for 8220 Excellence

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

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