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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Story and photos by Mark Armstong The headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in downtown Washington DC was the location for a remarkable roundtable...
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. In a previous This Space Available blog post, I wrote about Dr. Brian O’Leary, the “Excess Eleven” astronaut candidate....
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. This weekend, many of us on the United States’ eastern coast made preparations for Hurricane Dorian, the devastating tropical...
By George Mancuso On August 27, Starhopper, utilizing a single Raptor methane-fueled rocket engine, rose 150 meters above Boca Chica, Texas and successfully landed. This...
Note from Dale Skran, Chair of the NSS Executive Committee: NSS Vice President of Space Development Greg Autry (pictured above) has a very interesting article...
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. In July 2013, I was honored to attend the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s gala dinner celebrating Skylab’s 40th anniversary at...
OPINION by Dale Skran Ever since its inception there has been a school of thought that SLS and Orion were a poor use of taxpayer...
From Dale Skran, Chair of the NSS Executive Committee: NSS VP of Space Development Greg Autry has an essay on the American Energy Society website....
Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft, by Jay Gallentine. Reviewed by Clifford R. McMurray. It’s impossible to do justice to the epic scope...
A grass-roots media project involving some NSS members is now available on Amazon Prime: “50/50 Lunar Legends” a new documentary about the 50th anniversary of...
By George Mancuso On July 25, 2019 Starhopper rose to an altitude of approximately 20 meters at the SpaceX McGregor Texas facility while also performing...
The purpose of this just-released NSS Position Paper is to clarify and explain current and potential benefits of space-based capabilities for life on Earth from...
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