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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NASA Officials Warn of Tight Budgets Ahead By Amy Klamper in Space News “Budgets were tight when I was here in the 90s, but they’re...
Augustine appears before Congress about space review BY WILLIAM HARWOOD in Space Flight Now “The issue is money. That issue renders moot all other debate...
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Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Talia Page From Ad Astra Spring 2009 Title: The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet Author: Neil...
Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Bart Leahy From Ad Astra Spring 2009 Title: Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story Author: David Hitt, Owen Garriott, and Joe Kerwin...
The National Space Society has just released a position statement on the Human Spaceflight Committee’s Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee Summary Report....
The Human Spaceflight Committee, chaired by Norman Augustine, has just released their Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee Summary Report which will be...
Spaced Out NASA’s vision for human exploration needs some hard questions and perhaps an entrepreneurial boost in the Washington Post Now that the station is...
Scientists design spacecraft to save Earth A spacecraft capable of saving the world from a catastrophic asteroid collision has been designed by British space scientists....
Japan Plans $21 Billion Solar Space Post to Power 294,000 Homes by Ariel Schwartz in Inhabitat. The concept of space-based solar power was introduced way...
Surrendering Outer Space-America yields the high ground – By Alan W. Dowd in Policy Review published by the Hoover Institution. What if, in the midst...
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