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.
Space Science
Welcome to the NSS blog. Feel free to comment on any post (comments are moderated so won’t show up immediately). Contributors to the NSS Blog are unpaid volunteers. Unless specifically labeled an NSS position or press release, all blog posts represent the views of the author and not of NSS, even if written by an NSS officer.
Venus: the enigma of the Solar System, and Island of Clouds’ target. Gerald Brennan’s newest book supposes NASA sent astronauts on a flyby mission to...
NASA image: “Mariner 4 image, the first close-up image ever taken of Mars. This shows an area about 330 km across by 1200 km from...
Viking 1 surveys the “Big Joe” rock at Chryse Planitia. NASA image. You should go there, it is so nice, Mars.You should be there, it’s...
From NASA: “Taken by the Viking 1 lander shortly after it touched down on Mars, this image is the first photograph ever taken from the...
From NASA: “This photograph of the sun, taken on Dec. 19, 1973, during the third and final manned Skylab mission (Skylab 4), shows one of...
From NASA: “On August 20, 1975, Viking 1 was launched by a Titan/Centaur rocket from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at...
NSS Enterprise in Space Orbiter Design Contest The NASA Space Shuttle Enterprise never made it to orbit. While that was the original intent, subsequent redesigns...
This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over...
2012 was the year we conquered Mars again. JPL/NASA photo, taken from the Curiosity Rover. Despite the absence of the space shuttle, space in 2012...
My creation. According to our buddies at Caltech and JPL, Mars Curiosity has made a huge Mars discovery that “is gonna be one for the...
11:03 p.m.: To watch it live, check out NASA TV online. Programming begins at 11:30 p.m. EDT. Hey guys! 11:33 p.m.: Here’s MSL now: Thanks...
Hey all, I need some time to even synthesize my thoughts about the Kennedy Space Center NASA Social. Tonight, I will be liveblogging the MSL...
Categories
Follow Us On Social Media
JOIN THE
GREATEST ADVENTURE
Give The Gift Of Space: Membership For Friends and Family
Book Reviews
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:
Book Review: Return to Launch
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Casey Suire Title: Return to Launch: Florida and America’s Space Industry Author: Stephen C. Smith Format:
Book Review: Reality Check
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Dale Skran Title: Reality Check Authors: Brad Wieners and David Pescovitz Format: Paperback Pages: 161 Publisher:
Archives
Popular
BOOK REVIEWS
Recent Blog Posts
The National Space Society invites you to the next Space Forum Thursday, June 18, 2026, 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm EST NOTE NEW TIME! The...
For the first time, the space elevator track at ISDC expanded to two sessions: the morning dedicated to powering the space elevator and the afternoon...
The energy around the National Space Society’s Young Professionals (YP) initiative was on full display at this year’s International Space Development Conference® (ISDC®), with strong...
At the Johnson Space Center today, Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman symbolically handed the baton to Randy Bresnik, who will lead the four-person Artemis III...
NASA announces prime crew for critical orbital test flight of lunar landers The National Space Society congratulates the four-person prime crew and backup astronaut selected...
The National Space Society urges NASA to move swiftly on the Commercial LEO Destinations RFP and commit to immediately fly astronauts on commercial stations upon...
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...
Opinion By Burt Dicht NSS Space Coast Correspondent On April 19, I was at Jetty Park in Cape Canaveral and watched Blue Origin’s New Glenn...
