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NASA press release about the successful completion of the first commercial resupply mission the the International Space Station: RELEASE: 12-381 SPACEX DRAGON RETURNS FROM SPACE...

Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Clifford R. McMurray Title: Smoke Jumper, Moon Pilot: The Remarkable Life of Apollo 14 Astronaut Stuart Roosa Author: Willie G. Moseley...

Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Susan Raizer Title: Becoming Spacefarers: Rescuing America’s Space Program Author: James A. Vedda NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle...

Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Allen G. Taylor Title: Mars and How to Observe It Author: Peter Grego NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Paperback...

Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Stephen Adamczyk From Ad Astra Fall 2012 Title: At Home in Space: The Late Seventies Into the Eighties Author: Ben Evans...

Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Charlene Brusso From Ad Astra Fall 2012 Title: Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet’s Twin Author: Michael D. Lemonick NSS...

Las Cruces, New Mexico – October 17, 2012 – The National Space Society (NSS) and the New Mexico Museum of Space History (NMMSH) announced a...

The National Space Society congratulates Felix Baumgartner and the entire Red Bull Stratos team on the Mission to the Edge of Space, in which Baumgartner...

Felix Baumgartner jumps, Oct. 14, 2012. Image by spaceplasma on Tumblr…I own nothing. For some reason Blogger is being crabby about embedding video again, so...

Click on this link to see Felix Baumgartner attempt to jump from space this morning. Godspeed, Felix! UPDATE: HE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Emily Carney is a...

Al Worden engages in some awesomely WTF behavior circa 1967. Photos from Falling to Earth’s page on Facebook. Yes, he is drinking a beer.  So...

The National Space Society (NSS) congratulates Elon Musk and the entire SpaceX team on another successful and historic mission to the International Space Station (ISS)....

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