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By Hoyt Davidson NSS Executive Vice President The National Space Society celebrates the 100th anniversary of the seminal 1923 publication of Hermann Oberth 8217 s

STS 5 crew walkout November 11 1982 Front from left PLT Robert Overmyer and CDR Vance Brand Back from left MS Bill Lenoir George Abbey

Neil Armstrong somehow finds some time to practice landing on the Moon while he simultaneously spends 4 000 hours in the X 15 Real caption

1962 NASA photo 8220 Astronaut John H Glenn Jr looks into a Celestial Training Device globe during training in the Aeromedical Laboratory at Cape Canaveral

Square jawed Dr Ed Gibson gets ready to upset some space journalists NASA photo Sept 10 1973 8220 Scientist astronaut Edward G Gibson science pilot

This year the space community lost many notables including Gene Cernan Dick Gordon and Paul Weitz pictured aboard Skylab NASA photo June 1973 8220 Astronaut

From July 18 1966 8220 Astronaut Michael Collins command pilot is photographed inside the spacecraft during the Gemini 10 mission 8221 NASA photo The late

Several proposed military space programs including the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program are covered in Amazing Stories of the Space Age Rod Pyle 8217 s newest

Venus the enigma of the Solar System and Island of Clouds 8217 target Gerald Brennan 8217 s newest book supposes NASA sent astronauts on a

nbsp Emily Carney is a writer space enthusiast and creator of the This Space Available space blog published since 2010 In January 2019 Emily

When smoke gets in your eyes 1965 Life magazine photo nbsp In September John Young 8217 s autobiography Forever Young edited by Neil Armstrong 8217

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Category Nonfiction Reviewed by John J Vester Title Nuclear Rockets To the Moon and Mars Author Manfred Dutch von Ehrenfried Format Paperback Kindle Pages 270

Partially Successful Flight Reached Space and Demonstrated New Hot Staging System The National Space Society congratulates SpaceX on the second test of its Starship Super

Ad Astra the NSS quarterly print digital and audio magazine has won a 2023 MARCOM Gold Award The awards are given yearly for 8220 Excellence

By Jennifer Muntz NSS Member Coordinator On October 10th an inspiring breakfast event took flight at the Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space

By Grant Henriksen NSS Policy Committee Benefit sharing is a concept that refers to the distribution of benefits derived from the exploration and use of

People residing and working in space space settlements or on long duration space flights will need to produce infrastructures and food to maintain healthy lifestyles

Image Artist s concept of the Blue Moon lander Credit Blue Origin Second Human Landing System Contract Encourages Competition and Innovation The National Space Society