
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...
Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Marianne Dyson From Ad Astra Spring 2009 Title: Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System Author: Tom Jones and Ellen...
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...

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.

Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler Title: Space Ace: A Combat Pilot’s Journey from Vietnam to Beyond Earth Author:

Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Casey Suire Title: Return to Launch: Florida and America’s Space Industry Author: Stephen C. Smith Format:

Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Dale Skran Title: Reality Check Authors: Brad Wieners and David Pescovitz Format: Paperback Pages: 161 Publisher:
NASA announces prime crew for critical orbital test flight of lunar landers The National Space Society congratulates the four-person prime crew and backup astronaut selected...
The National Space Society urges NASA to move swiftly on the Commercial LEO Destinations RFP and commit to immediately fly astronauts on commercial stations upon...
Opinion By Burt Dicht NSS Space Coast Correspondent On April 19, I was at Jetty Park in Cape Canaveral and watched Blue Origin’s New Glenn...
From flags and footprints to foundations, NASA’s Moon Base is our Space Station moment: A report on the May 26 NASA press conference By Burt...