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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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By Dale Skran Copyright 2020 On August 18 2020 a SpaceX rocket roared into orbit with the 12th Falcon 9 flight of the year This
By Dale Skran SpaceX has had a great week Early on the morning of August 7 a Falcon 9 launched a batch of Starlink satellites
Isaac Arthur recipient of the NSS Space Pioneer Award for Education via Mass Media has posted this 20 minute video based on the first 12
By George Mancuso On 20 July 1969 humans landed on the Moon This was not merely a historical achievement but an evolutionary and even cosmic
By Dale Skran Starting March 28 2018 I initiated a series of blog posts tracking the SpaceX Triple Trifecta a bold attempt by SpaceX to
By George Mancuso Taking more and more passengers out into space will enable them and us to look both outwards and back but with a
By Dale Skran On Wednesday April 22 a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit see image above bringing the total in
By George Mancuso Boeing announced on April 6th it would fly a second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test OFT of its CST 100 Starliner The flight
By Dale Skran With most of us under some form of pandemic lockdown and focused on the terrible events unfolding around us it is easy
By Dale Skran Chair of the NSS Executive Committee NASA today announced that SpaceX has been chosen to provide a cargo vehicle the Dragon XL
Abstract The National Space Society NSS proposes a public private partnership approach to develop and demonstrate space solar power at a sufficiently high level of
By George Mancuso NASA and SpaceX successfully completed an in flight abort demonstration of the Dragon 2 spacecraft from a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday
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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
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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
