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Note from Dale Skran, Chair of the NSS Executive Committee: NSS Vice President of Space Development Greg Autry (pictured above) has a very interesting article...

OPINION by Dale Skran Ever since its inception there has been a school of thought that SLS and Orion were a poor use of taxpayer...

From Dale Skran, Chair of the NSS Executive Committee: NSS VP of Space Development Greg Autry has an essay on the American Energy Society website....

It’s time for this year’s Fall Fury Home District Blitz sign-up! Sign-up link is at the end of this post. For those of you unaware,...

The National Space Society (NSS) enthusiastically supports the Space Resources Institute Act (H.R. 1029), a bi-partisan bill submitted by Representatives Scott Tipton and Ed Perlmutter....

The National Space Society supports the administration’s efforts to accelerate the timetable for getting U.S. personnel on the Moon permanently. Chair of the NSS Executive...

OPINION by Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President On October 10th, 2018, the Air Force announced the funding recipients for National Security Space Launch program,...

NSS has released a new position paper entitled “A Space Guard to Enable, Regulate, and Protect National Civil and Commercial Space Activities.” The abstract is...

The National Space Society has published a position paper on establishing an Outer Space Private Investment Corporation. The objective for this paper is to inform...

The Alliance for Space Development (ASD), the National Space Society (NSS) and the Space Frontier Foundation (SFF), are holding the annual March Storm Washington DC...

A Magazine Review by Dale L Skran, NSS Executive Vice President The July 30, 2018 issue of Business Week is a special issue devote entirely...

The National Space Society, America’s leading citizen space advocacy organization, calls attention to the fact that under its new administrator, James Bridenstine, NASA has the...

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Book Review: Designing Farms in Space

Meyer’s academic textbook is loaded with numerous photographs, diagrams, charts, and graphs. There are chapters on subjects such as farm machines, animal and fungi production, plant and algae production, and space menus. The farming techniques outlined in the book can be applied to lunar, Martian, or rotating space settlements.

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