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Falcon Heavy will lift more than twice as much as any other launch vehicle See video of full press conference. WASHINGTON – Today, Elon Musk,...

SENIOR INDIAN RESEARCHER BACKS JOINT US-INDIA DEVELOPMENT OF SPACE SOLAR POWER – A MULTI-NATIONAL POWER SOURCE Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, a Senior Fellow at India’s...

The NSS International Space Development Conference (ISDC) will be this May 18-22 at the Von Braun Center and Embassy Suites Hotel and Spa in Huntsville,...

The 30th International Space Development Conference (ISDC), the annual gathering of the National Space Society (NSS), is coming to the Von Braun Center in Huntsville...

Attention all teachers: Free copies of The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by the late Princeton physicist Gerard K. O’Neill are being offered to...

by Brian Cleaver “I am definitely in.” It was these four words that I had said to Rick Zucker, Executive Vice President of the National...

Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Steve Adamczyk Title: Voyages of Discovery: The Missions of the Space Shuttle Discovery Author: Robert Adamcik NSS Amazon link for this...

The March issue of Popular Science magazine provides a feature cover story titled “After Earth: The Case for Populating the Universe — and How We’ll...

WASHINGTON — U.S. high school students are invited to participate in NASA’s Interdisciplinary National Science Program Incorporating Research Experience, or INSPIRE, through an online learning...

Image Credit: NASA With the extension of the lifetime of the International Space Station to 2020, and perhaps beyond, the maintenance and resupply of the...

NASA’s 2012 Budget Estimate Overview can be found here (pdf). The Budget Summary can be found here (pdf). Funding Highlights: Provides $18.7 billion, the same...

“Yo dawgs, we heard you like the moon, so we put a moon in your picture so you can look at the picture of yourselves...

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Book Review: Designing Farms in Space

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.

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