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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Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Ariel I Rayman From Ad Astra Fall 2011 Title: NASA Space Shuttle Owners’ Workshop Manual Author: Dr. David Baker NSS Amazon...
Juno hauling its solar-powered ass away from Earth around an hour and a half post-launch at 1:53 PM EDT, August 5th, 2011. Juno earlier this...
Category: Children’s Book Reviewed by: Marianne Dyson Title: Taking Off Author: Jenny Moss Ages: YA-Adult NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardbound Pages: 340...
This is where Juno was at 4:10 PM EDT today. Screenshot by me. A while back Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in conjunction with the California...
Juno’s Atlas V is on top of this plume, August 5th, 2011. At this time, the Atlas V was traveling downrange towards its desired interplanetary...
Although the details of the design of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) have yet to be released, significant information about the schedule and cost is...
NASA has selected four companies to develop concepts for storing and transferring cryogenic propellants in space. These capabilities are important for the agency’s future deep...
Woot! I am here y’allz. Right next to the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC in the Tweetup tent. I can’t quite believe it myself. I...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made numerous public statements about SpaceX plans to send humans to Mars in the next 10 to 20 years (e.g....
I am here again in Titusville after a semi-arduous but necessary and money-saving bus trip. Excited and ready for fun…of course, watch this space over...
Photo from NASA Tweetup at Twitter. Also, Emily C. launches tomorrow morning. On a bus. To Florida’s Space Coast. See you there! Emily Carney is...
As market competition for space access heats up, there is a renewed interest in air-breathing technology. At the same time, remarkable launch cost reductions in...
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