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I attended a half-day symposium on The Space Economy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Friday. The state of the Space economy is good....

‘English Galileo’ maps on display Thomas Harriot was the first man to view the Moon through a telescope. Papers at the West Sussex Record Office...

Members of Congress are having issues with NASA’s Inspector General and Administrator candidates. Lawmakers: NASA watchdog lacks bite, needs to go WASHINGTON (CNN) — Key...

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In The Space Advocate Douglas Mallette wrote How Space Exploration and Development Can Save the American and Global Economy. I have talked before on how...

In an answer from a question from Mark Matthews of the Orlando Sentinel about the future of the space shuttle- OBAMA: First of all, we...

A Coalition for Space Exploration survey reports that support for space is strong. Despite the tough economic climate in the U.S., almost 90 percent of...

The Kepler Spacecraft will use the the laws of planetary motion discovered by the 17th century German scientist Johannes Kepler to find planets around distant...

In an article in the Space Review Is the US serious about space policy? by Jeff Foust. He discusses a roundtable discussion of space policy...

Chuck Divine, who has been active in NSS for decades, lost his Mother last week. Chuck and his mother were extremely close and he would...

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