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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By Laura Brady, NSS Legal Fellow It has been over forty years since astronaut Eugene Cernan left the Moon and returned to Earth. Since then,...
By Bailey Cunningham, NSS Legal Fellow Humans are at the brink of a new era of space exploration. We are bound only by our imagination,...
By Jessica Andrews, NSS Legal Fellow As a crowning achievement of international cooperation in tense times, the International Space Station (ISS) has housed various groups...
By Samuel Thorpe, NSS Legal Fellow Why space? The National Space Society says, “because we must.” And it’s true. Long before the Babylonians started to...
By Fisher Smith, NSS Legal Fellow Space, the final frontier of human exploration. For thousands of years, we have dreamed of going to the stars...
By Grant Haas, NSS Legal Fellow Is commercial space travel just for the wealthy? Aren’t private equity firms jumping at the chance to invest in...
The National Space Society (NSS) is pleased to announce the creation of the NSS Legal Fellows program, an unprecedented opportunity for exceptional law students with...
Dale Skran, Chair of the NSS Executive Committee, writes: I strongly suggest reading the recent article “What is the Moon Treaty and is it still...
A new international law textbook contains an article on “Space Settlements, Property Rights, and International Law: Could a Lunar Settlement Claim the Lunar Real Estate...
Dr. Eilene Galloway The Grand Matriarch of Space Law Passes Away October 4, 1957, when the first artificial satellite began orbiting the Earth, nations reacted...
Out of the Cradle has an interesting interview with James Dunstan on space law and commerical space.
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