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Category Nonfiction Reviewed by Peter Spasov Title Bennu 3 D Anatomy of an Asteroid Authors Dante S Lauretta Brian May Carina A Bennett Kenneth S

The NSS Iowa Chapter meeting presentation on October 16 available world wide via Zoom will feature speaker Dan Hoy local NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador

By Robin Scott Image Visualizing the trajectories through the solar system of asteroids discovered by ADAM Credits B612 Asteroid Institute University of Washington DiRAC Institute

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test Has Successfully Met Its Target Image Photo of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos seconds before the DART spacecraft crashed into it

The NSS Campaign to Save NEO Surveyor Near Earth Object Surveyor Mission By Jonathan Dagle NSS Planetary Defense Program Manager Asteroids have been striking the

© by Dale Skran NSS Chief Operating Officer Image NASA Lucy mission will fly by eight asteroids courtesy NASA You can t develop or settle

By Trevor J Mills OSIRIS REx has just entered orbit around asteroid Bennu on New Year 8217 s Eve 2018 The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource

Illustration by Akihiro Ikeshita C Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA By Trevor Mills What is Hayabusa2 Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa2 Peregrine Falcon in Japanese is a

With the successful launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 411 on September 8 at 7 05 PM EST 2016 from Space Launch Complex

Deep Space Industries announced today its plans to fly the world s first commercial interplanetary mining mission Prospector 1 x2122 will fly to and rendezvous

NSS Executive Vice President Dale Skran writes In the current April 20 26 print issue of Bloomberg Businessweek one of the top three business magazines

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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

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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

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