Book Review: NASA’s Discovery Program
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Casey Suire Title: NASA’s Discovery Program: The First Twenty Years of Competitive Planetary Exploration Author: Susan
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Above image courtesy SpaceX The first orbital test flight of Starship Superheavy is scheduled for 8 AM Eastern Monday April 17 with a launch window
By Dale Skran Image credit Commercial LEO stations by Axiom Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin In a recent blog post I tackled the subject What
By Dale Skran A term you will hear in many modern space discussions is space sustainability Few space related terms are used to mean such
By Richard Howard On July 22 2022 the Planetary Society held a Webinar event celebrating the three year anniversary of the solar sail deployment of
By Dale Skran Most NSS members take it for granted that the term space development is widely understood After all we have been running the
The National Space Society is pleased to announce the latest Dr Martine Rothblatt Space Settlement in Our Lifetime Competition which will award three cash prizes
© by Dale Skran NSS Chief Operating Officer Image NASA Lucy mission will fly by eight asteroids courtesy NASA You can t develop or settle
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
You are Invited to the National Space Society Space Forum Thursday May 20 2021 9 00 to 10 15 PM EDT A Modern Day Space
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
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
Below is a link to slides from an NSS presentation 8220 Fostering Scalable Resilient Utility Infrastructure for Cislunar Space 8221 at the Fifty Eighth session
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Casey Suire Title: NASA’s Discovery Program: The First Twenty Years of Competitive Planetary Exploration Author: Susan
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Peter Spasov Title: The Music of Space: Scoring the Cosmos in Film and Television Author: Chris
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Category: Children’s Books Reviewed by: Susan Raizer Title: An Unlikely Astronaut Author: Susan Kilrain with Francis French Illustrator: Becky Hardy
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Category Nonfiction Reviewed by John J Vester Title Nuclear Rockets To the Moon and Mars Author Manfred Dutch von Ehrenfried Format Paperback Kindle Pages 270
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
Ad Astra the NSS quarterly print digital and audio magazine has won a 2023 MARCOM Gold Award The awards are given yearly for 8220 Excellence
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