Book Review: Space Ace
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler Title: Space Ace: A Combat Pilot’s Journey from Vietnam to Beyond Earth Author:
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By Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto It is only fitting that just before humanity celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the surface of...
[For Space Settlement Blog Day, July 20, 2009] Can we afford to settle space? A concomitant question is “Can we afford NOT to settle space?”...
We have 34 blogs participating. This is a great success. What a great way to honor the Apollo 11 landing. Please let us know which...
A ground-breaking new paper on space solar power has just been added to the online NSS Space Solar Power Library. The paper is: “Financial and...
Garver served 9 years as Executive Director of the National Space Society. The National Space Society (NSS) is pleased to congratulate retired Marine Major General...
July 19th, 2009. A date that will forever change the way we view space flight. In the arid desert just west of the mountain range...
The National Space Society is proud to announce the “launch”, on June 23, 2009, of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s dramatic memoir, Magnificent Desolation –...
Time to Boldly Go Once More By Buzz Aldrin, Thursday, July 16, 2009, washingtonpost.com Instead, I propose a new Unified Space Vision, a plan to...
Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: David Brandt-Erichsen Title: Lunar Outpost: The Challenges of Establishing a Human Settlement on the Moon Author: Erik Seedhouse NSS Amazon link...
PROVIDE YOUR INPUT TO THE AUGUSTINE COMMISSION This spring, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy asked NASA to launch a commission tasked...
The NSS Space Solar Power Library is the largest source of information about space solar power on the web, and NSS has an onging project...
Space Settlement Blog Day is on July 20th. I want to thank David Brandt-Erichsen, Charles Radley and Brice Russ for making Space Settlement Blog Day...
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Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler Title: Space Ace: A Combat Pilot’s Journey from Vietnam to Beyond Earth Author: Robert “Hoot” Gibson Format: Hardcover/Kindle...
The 44th Annual International Space Development Conference will be held in McLean, VA, June 4-7, 2026 The National Space Society is pleased to announce that...
