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Well Tested Suborbital Tourist Rocket Soars to 63 Miles After years of development and 15 prior test flights Jeff Bezos has taken the journey of

You are Invited to a National Space Society Space Forum Thursday July 22 2021 9 00 pm EDT to 10 15 pm EDT Rocket Summer

This fourth test spaceflight was the first fully crewed By Bob Brodbeck Realizing a boyhood dream Sir Richard Branson founder of Virgin Galactic rocketed to

This Flight Is One Step Toward Opening Space to All Humanity On Sunday July 11 Virgin Galactic launched the first operational passenger flight of their

Flight is first spaceflight from Spaceport America New Mexico By Bob Brodbeck Image Cabin interior with passenger seats rotated back in space courtesy of Virgin

By Dale Skran On May 9th at 2 42 AM a Falcon 9 roared skyward lofting another 60 Starlink satellites to orbit Ho hum That

SpaceX s Starship Breaks Another Record Reaching all Milestones and Landing Safely Image Starship SN15 after landing SpaceX On Wednesday May 5 at 6 24

One seat is up for auction By Bob Brodbeck Image courtesy Blue Origin Today May 5th on the 60th anniversary of Alan Shepard s Mercury

By Bob Brodbeck Earlier today Wednesday April 14 2021 Blue Origin successfully completed the 15th flight of the New Shepard rocket and capsule system at

Opinion by Dale Skran Image SN10 vaults skyward 03 03 2021 courtesy SpaceX A bit more than a year and a half ago August 28

NASA and the Rise of Commercial Space A Symposium to Examine the Meaning s and Context s of Commercial Space Wednesday 8211 March 17 2021

By Dale Skran NSS CEO On January 20th SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center The first stage

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Partially Successful Flight Reached Space and Demonstrated New Hot Staging System The National Space Society congratulates SpaceX on the second test of its Starship Super

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By Jennifer Muntz NSS Member Coordinator On October 10th an inspiring breakfast event took flight at the Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space

By Grant Henriksen NSS Policy Committee Benefit sharing is a concept that refers to the distribution of benefits derived from the exploration and use of

People residing and working in space space settlements or on long duration space flights will need to produce infrastructures and food to maintain healthy lifestyles

Image Artist s concept of the Blue Moon lander Credit Blue Origin Second Human Landing System Contract Encourages Competition and Innovation The National Space Society