Book Review: A Future Spacefaring Society
We are at the cusp of building an orbital industrial infrastructure and establishing human settlements in space. This book investigates what it takes to do that.
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NSS members supported the Space Exploration Alliance (SEA) DC Blitz (Feb. 26-28) this year. A major theme of this year’s blitz was to pass the...
NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) Test Subject Screening is recruiting volunteers for a long duration mission to simulate flight operations and confinement. Subjects will spend...
Reviewed by: Clifford R. McMurray Title: To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers Author: Chris Gainor NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Paperback Pages:...
SpaceX released the following statement February 27: We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip...
Reviewed by: Clifford R. McMurray Title: Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom Author: George Leopold NSS Amazon link for this book...
Reviewed by: Robert A. Lee Title: The Swarm: The Second Formic War (Volume 1) Authors: Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston NSS Amazon link for...
To NSS Members and anyone who supports a Citizen’s Space Agenda (a message from NSS Executive Vice President Dale Skran): I hope you all are...
Prof. Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), is the winner of the National Space Society’s 2017 prestigious Wernher von Braun Memorial...
Losing the Geomagnetic Shield: A Critical Issue for Space Settlement, a new paper by Philip K. Chapman, has just been published in the NSS Space...
“MAC’s Old Team,” consisting of former employees of the McDonnell Aircraft, McDonnell-Douglas and Boeing Companies in the St. Louis area, is the winner of the...
Reviewed by: Loretta Hall Title: Picture This! Grasping the Dimensions of Time and Space Author: Michael Carroll NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover/Kindle...
An enormously successful first annual Space Settlement Summit hosted by the National Space Society (NSS) occurred on January 10-11, 2017, in Santa Monica, California. Industry...
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We are at the cusp of building an orbital industrial infrastructure and establishing human settlements in space. This book investigates what it takes to do...
