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You are Invited to the National Space Society Space Forum Thursday, May 20, 2021, 9:00 to 10:15 PM EDT A Modern Day Space Elevator –
By Dale Skran On May 9th at 2:42 AM a Falcon 9 roared skyward lofting another 60 Starlink satellites to orbit. Ho-hum! That’s the 11th
One seat is up for auction. By Bob Brodbeck Image courtesy Blue Origin Today, May 5th, on the 60th anniversary of Alan Shepard’s Mercury 7
Below is a link to slides from an NSS presentation, “Fostering Scalable, Resilient Utility Infrastructure for Cislunar Space,” at the Fifty-Eighth session of the Scientific
By Bob Brodbeck Earlier today, Wednesday April 14, 2021, Blue Origin successfully completed the 15th flight of the New Shepard rocket and capsule system at
Opinion by Dale Skran Image: SN10 vaults skyward 03 03 2021, courtesy SpaceX A bit more than a year and a half ago [August 28,
By Namrata Goswami Art work by James Vaughan The newly minted Space Force Journal (SFJ) with its beautiful space art makes for exciting and inspiring
OPINION by Dale Skran, NSS CEO With thanks to Fred Becker, Greg Autry, and Al Globus for their suggestions. Image of Starship taking off from
By Laura Brady, NSS Legal Fellow Krafft Ehricke once said, “If God wanted [hu]man[s] to become a spacefaring species, He would have given [hu]man[s] a
By Bob Brodbeck Activities in the suborbital space tourism arena indicate that it is highly likely this business will finally become operational, flying paying passengers
By Fisher Smith, NSS Legal Fellow Why should we spend the money, effort and time focusing on outer space exploration and development? After all, it’s
High-Altitude Test Flight is a Huge Step Toward National Space Society Goals of Space Settlement On December 9, at 5:45 p.m. EST, SpaceX’s Starship was
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