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Blog for and about space settlement on July 20th July 20th 2009 is the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. July 20th is...

Ideas: The Central Thrust of the NSS Strategic Plan When we were in the early stages of producing the NSS Strategic Plan, we analyzed what...

Catch -22 is the title of a Joseph Heller novel, the title comes from a catch in the rules which creates an insolvable dilemma. Catch-22...

Arthur C. Clarke died a year ago today. Clarke shaped the space movement in so many ways from geostationary communications to 2001. He inspired so...

Space Settlement and Space Tourism: an Ideological Marriage by Mark Hopkins a new column on another aspect of the space movement. Space settlement proponents and...

A week after I launched the Facebook Space Movement Group, in order to popularize the term the Space Movement, the group has over 200 members....

The Space Movement Face Book Page came up in the second position on a Google Search of the term – The Space Movement. Rankings come...

Last week one of the leaders of NSS explained to me how important it was that the pro-space philosophy be seen as a movement like...

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