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Viking 1 surveys the “Big Joe” rock at Chryse Planitia. NASA image. You should go there, it is so nice, Mars.You should be there, it’s...
From NASA: “Taken by the Viking 1 lander shortly after it touched down on Mars, this image is the first photograph ever taken from the...
From Wikipedia: “Visitors at the 38th Paris International Air and Space Show at Le Bourget Airfield line up to tour a Soviet An-225 Mechta aircraft...
Thanks to National Space Society’s affiliate the International Space Elevator Consortium, we have substantially updated and expanded our Space Elevator Library. Check it out!
...You are cordially invited to join the 2016 Annual ASD/NSS/SFF August Home District Blitz congressional action event. This event supports the 2016 Alliance for Space...
The National Space Society celebrates the life and contributions of a visionary champion of the commercial space industry and human space settlement, the Honorable Patricia...
Over 1000 visitors were introduced to the ambitious Enterprise In Space (EIS) program at Space Day recently held June 4 at the Smithsonian’s National Air...
Category: Fiction Reviewed by: Robert A. Lee Title: Poseidon’s Wake Author: Alastair Reynolds NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle Pages: 608 Publisher: Ace...
By Gloria Lloyd Since the International Space Development Conference will be in St. Louis in May, 2017, it is appropriate to learn about the St....
by Christine Nobbe, EdS, NBCT ISDC® 2017 Conference Chair St. Louis Union Station Hotel, “the grandest station in the Nation,” is the chosen site for...
From NASA: “This photograph of the sun, taken on Dec. 19, 1973, during the third and final manned Skylab mission (Skylab 4), shows one of...
BEAM was pressurized May 28 on the International Space Station, where it will remain attached for a two-year test period. The module measured just over...
Back in 1966, Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon. Apogee Books has provided an English-language NASA translation of a detailed report originally released by the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Meyer’s academic textbook is loaded with numerous photographs, diagrams, charts, and graphs. There are chapters on subjects such as farm machines, animal and fungi production, plant and algae production, and space menus. The farming techniques outlined in the book can be applied to lunar, Martian, or rotating space settlements.
Apogee Books has reissued its volume on Surveyor for the program’s 60th anniversary. The book is a wonder, containing a veritable treasure trove of documents on every conceivable facet of the Surveyor program.
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.
By Burt Dicht NSS Space Coast Correspondent Image: Starship 13 after “landing” in the Indian Ocean. Last week I had the opportunity to speak to...
Today, on the 57th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing, this inspiring song commemorating the past and the future of our presence on the Moon...
The National Space Society (NSS) today announced that it is delivering a letter to Congress and the Administration addressing concerns and recommendations regarding NASA’s draft...
The National Space Society invites you to the next Space Forum Thursday, July 23, 2026, 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm EST Artemis II and Our...
