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Jeff Greason’s speech at the Awards Dinner at the 2011 NSS International Space Development Conference is being widely regarded as a major statement in the...
ISDC conference report by Dave Fischer If those who think Mars is sufficiently hard to get to and remain to settle are correct, or those...
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...
The Grand Prize for the 2011 NASA/NSS Space Settlement Contest went to a team of seven high school students from Punjab, India, for their double-torus...
Attention all teachers: Free copies of The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by the late Princeton physicist Gerard K. O’Neill are being offered to...
The March issue of Popular Science magazine provides a feature cover story titled “After Earth: The Case for Populating the Universe — and How We’ll...
by Dave Fischer If you want humanity to explore the Solar System, you have to test the systems you plan to use for moving around...
The Space Development Steering Committee has released the following statement with accompanying graphic, which may be freely distributed: In the 19th century, America redefined the...
NSS CEO Mark Hopkins writes on The Long Run Geopolitics of Space Settlements in the latest issue of Ad Astra magazine. Below is a précis....
NSS Senior Operating Officer Mark Hopkins writes on Alternative Futures in the latest issue of Ad Astra magazine: Because the Earth is running out of...
The National Space Society is founding a new online, high-quality, peer-reviewed journal, the NSS Space Settlement Journal. Journal-quality papers are solicited on all aspects of...
By Jonas Dino, NASA Ames Research Center From http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_results.html November 13, 2009 The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds...
Apogee Books has reissued its volume on Surveyor for the program’s 60th anniversary. The book is a wonder, containing a veritable treasure trove of documents on every conceivable facet of the Surveyor program.
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.
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler Title: Space Ace: A Combat Pilot’s Journey from Vietnam to Beyond Earth Author:
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Casey Suire Title: Return to Launch: Florida and America’s Space Industry Author: Stephen C. Smith Format:
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...
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...
