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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At the Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program meeting Neil DeGrasse Tyson said NASA should get out of Low Earth Orbit (LEO)....
A new book about the future. George Friedman’s “The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century” Here are two videos of the author...
Remembering Apollo 1, Columbia, and Challenger at Arlington – NASA Acting Administrator Christopher Scolese and other NASA senior leaders participated in a wreath laying ceremony...
The National Space Society and the Conrad Foundation are now partners to support the upcoming Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards, the Foundation’s annual educational...
Space Settlement and Space Tourism: an Ideological Marriage by Mark Hopkins a new column on another aspect of the space movement. Space settlement proponents and...
A week after I launched the Facebook Space Movement Group, in order to popularize the term the Space Movement, the group has over 200 members....
Miles O’Brian wrote an OpEd: We Aimed for The Stars…Until We Stopped in Space News. Included in it was a powerful question. Truth is, we...
A new movie for all the Lunartics is coming out this year. Director Duncan Jones is bringing us Moon, a hardcore sci-fi movie he imagined...
The Space Movement Face Book Page came up in the second position on a Google Search of the term – The Space Movement. Rankings come...
Last week one of the leaders of NSS explained to me how important it was that the pro-space philosophy be seen as a movement like...
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