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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:
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The Barringer Crater Company has established a special fund to support field work by eligible students interested in the study of impact cratering processes. The...
The International Space University, The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation & George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute Invite You To An Exclusive Director’s Screening of...
Frontiers of Propulsion Science is the first-ever compilation of emerging science relevant to such notions as space drives, warp drives, gravity control, and faster-than-light travel...
I am presently writing comments on a Space Policy Paper and I was pointing the author to a column written by my father, John G....
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Since George Whitesides has decided to follow other Opportunities. Posted by Mark Hopkins Call For Applications For The Position Of Executive Director Of The...
George Abbey, Neal Lane and John Muratore wrote Maximizing NASA’s Potential in Flight and on the Ground: Recommendations for the Next Administration for the James...
The National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference is looking for ideas. Suggestions can be either for the program or the conference as a whole. ...
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At the Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program meeting Neil DeGrasse Tyson said NASA should get out of Low Earth Orbit (LEO)....
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Remembering Apollo 1, Columbia, and Challenger at Arlington – NASA Acting Administrator Christopher Scolese and other NASA senior leaders participated in a wreath laying ceremony...
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