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Image: New Shepard payload customers at the landing site after the previous Mission 8. Image courtesy Blue Origin. By Bob Brodbeck An important milestone in...
Image: March Storm 2018 training session August Blitz/Fall Fury 2018 Home District Congressional Visits Coming Up You are cordially invited to join the 2018 Annual...
By Alice M. Hoffman, NSS President Thank you to Dr. Tanya Sienko (photo below) for organizing Scott’s donation and to all the NSS members who...
The Future of Humanity, by Michio Kaku. Reviewed by Peter Spasov. A popular theoretical physicist envisions a grand golden age of space development and our...
LUROVA™, the LUnar ROVing Adventures educational simulation game, was provided by the HAL5 NSS Chapter for about 120 kids and adults at the 2018 “NASA...
The Huntsville Alabama L5 Society (HAL5) is hosting the 2018 Power Grid Defense Conference August 9-12 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Huntsville, Alabama. Greg...
Have you ever wished to build a Martian settlement from scratch and attempt to make it self-sufficient? That’s what the game “Surviving Mars” provides. You...
By Dave Dressler, NSS Conference Committee Chair Photos by Keith Zacharski, National Space Society Many amazing things happened at ISDC this year and they were...
Image: Jeff Bezos and Alan Boyle at ISDC 2018. Credit: Keith Zacharski, National Space Society Jeff Bezos attended our 2018 International Space Development Conference to...
By Claire McMurray Photos by Keith Zacharski, National Space Society The ISDC 2018 conference kicked off with a Felicitation Ceremony performed by Avinash Shirode, President...
The NSS Policy Committee has endorsed a new initiative defining a set of: 2018 Milestones to Space Development (PDF slide set) Volunteers are solicited to...
“Viktor, did you know I did all of the vocal tracks for Thriller? Well, I did. That guy Michael Jackson is partying it up back...
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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...
