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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The National Space Society (NSS) commends the Senate Appropriations Committee for its bipartisan support of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in the FY2026 Commerce, Justice, and...
By Lynne F. ZielinskiVice President of Education Emerita, National Space SocietySpace Educator Award Chair, National Space Club & Foundation The National Space Society (NSS) is...
The NSS-affiliated nonprofit Expanding Frontiers (ExF) recently signed the Washington Compact on Norms of Behavior for Commercial Space Operations, a landmark initiative led by the...
The National Space Society (NSS) welcomes the White House’s new executive order, “Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry,” as a bold step toward streamlining...
Important National Security Payload Successfully Reaches Geosynchronous Orbit On Tuesday, August 12, United Launch Alliance launched its new Vulcan rocket for the third time, carrying...
The National Space Society Thanks Captain Lovell for his Service on the Society’s Board of Governors Captain James A. Lovell Jr., the NASA astronaut made...
New in the NSS Space Settlement Journal Simplified Artificial Intelligence Networks of Systems for a Small Space Settlement on the Moon or Mars (see full...
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler Title: Inspired Enterprise: How NASA, the Smithsonian, and the Aerospace Community Helped Launch Star Trek Author: Glen Swanson...
The National Space Society invites you to the next Space Forum Thursday, August 7, 2024, 9:00 pm to 10:15 pm EST Into the Void: Adventures...
Scrubbed but Not Stopped By Burt DichtNSS Managing Director of MembershipImage: Crew 11 docking to the ISS (NASA TV) Yankee great Yogi Berra once said,...
The National Space Society (NSS) is proud to announce its participation in the upcoming Day of Action to Save NASA Science, taking place October 5–6,...
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...
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