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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Story and photos by Burt Dicht NSS Managing Director of Membership Image above: Artemis II rolls out of High Bay 3 of the Vertical Assembly...
Artemis II Crew. From left to right, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen (mission specialist), NASA astronauts Christina Koch (mission specialist), Victor Glover (pilot), and...
Blue Ghost Represents the First Completely Successful Mission of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program Image: Blue Ghost’s shadow on the Moon, courtesy Firefly Aerospace....
Image: First launch of New Glenn courtesy of Blue Origin From NSS Headquarters The first month of 2025 has already been filled with remarkable achievements...
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Image: Artist renditions of Blue Ghost and Resilience lunar landers (no, they won’t be landing next to each other). Courtesy Firefly Aerospace and ispace. By...
There are Better Options than Outright Cancellation of this Valuable Mission Image: Rendering of NASA’S VIPER rover on its originally intended mission to the Moon....
The National Space Society invites you to the next Space Forum Thursday, June 13, 2024, 9:00 pm to 10:15 pm EDT Experiencing the Moon at...
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 first...
Image: The Moon’s surface from Chandrayaan-3. Credit: ISRO. NSS Indian Chapters Jubilant Over Successful Touchdown Just a few days after Russia’s Luna 26 lander apparently...
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 1...
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