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Private Mission to the Moon Marks America s First Lunar Landing Since 1972 In a milestone achievement private company Intuitive Machines succeeded in scoring the

Image The Moon 8217 s surface from Chandrayaan 3 Credit ISRO NSS Indian Chapters Jubilant Over Successful Touchdown Just a few days after Russia 8217

By Robin Scott The Sacramento L5 Society SacL5 Chapter of NSS wrapped up its successful series of 50th anniversary Breakfast on the Moon BOM events

By Dale Skran With the long awaited November 16 2022 launch of the much delayed and far over budget Space Launch System on the Artemis

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

An updated NSS Position Paper just released is reproduced in full below the original appeared in November 2019 We also have a PDF copy The

8220 Many outside NASA do not realize that NASA s public private partnerships leverage commercial space services in a way that maximizes the return

The National Space Society NSS applauds NASA s April 30 announcement by NASA Administrator James Bridenstine that SpaceX Dynetics and Blue Origin s National Team

It s beginning to feel like round two of the space race The Moon is still the primary objective but now several nations and private

Image Artist concept of the Beresheet lander on the Moon Credit SpaceIL By Dale Skran NSS Executive Vice President Rather than repeating the facts about

Blue Origin in the conceptual design phase of a large lunar lander called Blue Moon capable of bringing several metric tons of cargo to the

Check out this great new 5 minute video in 4K showing lunar highlights thanks to data provided by NASA 8217 s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft

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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