Book Review: The Music of Space
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Peter Spasov Title: The Music of Space: Scoring the Cosmos in Film and Television Author: Chris
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Deep Space Industries announced January 22 that it will send a fleet of asteroid prospecting spacecraft out into the solar system to hunt for resources
Virgin Galactic Unveils LauncherOne to Deliver 225 KG Orbit for $10 MIllion Image Credit Virgin Galactic In an announcement today at the Farnborough International Air
Expanding the resource base of humanity to include the solar system Seattle Wash April 24 2012 Planetary Resources Inc announced today its plan to mine
A new NASA outreach project will enlist the help of amateur astronomers to discover near Earth objects NEOs and study their characteristics NEOs are asteroids
Here is the Introduction to 8220 Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study 8221 by the Keck Institute for Space Studies KISS at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory released
High definition versions of this video are available on the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory website
Vesta Image from 5 200 kilometers Image Credit NASA JPL Caltech UCLA MPS DLR IDA See also full rotation movie of Vesta The Dawn spacecraft
Asteroid 2010 TK7 is circled in green Image Credit NASA JPL Caltech UCLA Scientists using the Wide field Infrared Survey Explorer WISE have discovered the
PASADENA Calif Astronomers studying observations taken by NASA 8217 s Wide field Infrared Survey Explorer WISE mission have discovered the first known 8220 Trojan 8221
Craters on Vesta Image Credit NASA JPL Caltech UCLA MPS DLR IDA NASA 8217 s Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the protoplanet Vesta with
NASA 8217 s Dawn spacecraft will enter orbit around the second most massive but third largest asteroid in the asteroid belt at around 10 pm
ISDC conference report by Dave Fischer Professor Jun ichiro Kawaguchi presented the history and results of the Hayabusa program formally known as MUSES C Professor
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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
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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
