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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By George Mancuso On August 27 Starhopper utilizing a single Raptor methane fueled rocket engine rose 150 meters above Boca Chica Texas and successfully landed
By George Mancuso On July 25 2019 Starhopper rose to an altitude of approximately 20 meters at the SpaceX McGregor Texas facility while also performing
By Dale Skran Chair of the NSS Executive Committee Image First SpaceX recovery of payload fairing An update on the status of three of SpaceX
Opinion By Dale Skran Chair of the NSS Executive Committee In the martial arts there is something called a 8220 committed strike 8221 That is
The National Space Society NSS applauds Jeff Bezos for the hope and inspiration he delivered to the world on Thursday May 9 when he took
By Bob Brodbeck At 8 32 am CST Thursday May 2nd Blue Origin launched its New Shepard suborbital rocket and payload capsule to space on
By Dale Skran NSS Chair of the Executive Committee On April 17th the final Cargo Resupply Services 1 mission to the ISS soared off the
By George Mancuso After five days in orbit Crew Dragon Demo 1 undocked from the International Space Station ISS and completed a picture perfect landing
By Dale Skran NSS Executive Vice President With today s complete success of the Demonstration Mission 1 uncrewed test of the Dragon 2 crew capsule
By George Mancuso On March 2 2019 at 02 49 03 Eastern Time 07 49 UTC a Dragon 2 spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space
By Dale Skran NSS Executive Vice President The first six satellites of a constellation that could number up 2 000 rocketed to orbit February 27th
Image Artist concept of the Beresheet lander on the Moon Credit SpaceIL By Dale Skran NSS Executive Vice President Rather than repeating the facts about
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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
