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Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Frederick I. Ordway III From Ad Astra Winter 2009 Title: Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962 Author: Megan Prelinger...
Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Charlene Brusso From Ad Astra Winter 2009 Title: Secrets of the Universe: How We Discovered the Cosmos Author: Paul Murdin NSS...
Category: Children’s Book Reviewed by: Marianne Dyson Title: Astroblast: Moon Stone Mystery Author & Illustrator: Bob Kolar Ages: 4-8 NSS Amazon link for this book...
Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Allen G. Taylor Title: Deep Space Flight and Communications: Exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens Author: Claudio Maccone NSS Amazon...
Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Steve Adamczyk Title: The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation Author: Frank O’Brien NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Paperback...
Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Allen G. Taylor Title: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void Author: Mary Roach NSS Amazon link...
“Lieutenant, your incompetence has nothing to do with me.”The Ice Commander tells it like it is. Alan Shepard was a self-admitted sonofabitch who was Navy...
From left, Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise, April/May 1970 This picture dates from around April/May 1970, after Apollo 13 came back to Earth...
From left: LEM pilot Fred Haise, mission commander Jim Lovell, and CM pilot Jack Swigert, April, 1970. Emily Carney is a writer, space enthusiast, and...
“Keep those cards and letters coming in folks.” Apollo 7 TV transmission, October 1968 It’s been a week since this blog has debuted and we’re...
podcast For all of you space enthusiasts out there, listen to this podcast by National Space Society member Lynne Zielinski as she discusses contests for...
“Hahaha, guys, that was so funny…you duct-taped Buzz to the flight simulator upside down, good job.” Deke Slayton, Alan Shepard, Jim Lovell, and Wally Schirra...
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...
