Ad Astra Volume 13 Number 2 2001

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Ad Astra 2001 (Volume 13 Number 2)

ON THE COVER: Shown are all of the vehicles that have carried humans into space during the last 40 years. Illustration by NSS member Richard Kruse.

Featured Articles:

  • 12
    Forty Years in Space: Human Spaceflight in Perspective
    By Howard McCurdy
  • 16
    A Space Shuttle Retrospective
    The role of the Space Shuttle in human spaceflight
    By Joan Johnson-Freese
  • 21
    The Spaceship that Came in From the Cold War
    The Untold Story of the DC-X

    By Andrew J. Butrica
  • 25
    A Space Enthusiast’s Political Primer
    By David S. Schuman
  • 28
    Humanity in Space
    The First 40 Years of Manned Space Vehicles in Scale Drawings
    By Richard Kruse
  • 30
    Storm of Fire: Could the Soviets Have Won the Moon Race?
    By David S. Michaels
  • 36
    Getting There Is Half the Fun
    The Evolution of Heavy Lift Rockets
    By Andrew J. LePage
  • 40
    NASA in the 21st Century
    By Taylor Dinerman
  • 44
    What Place in Space?
    Impacts and Future Prospects of the U.S. Pro-Space Movement
    By Amy Paige Snyder
  • 2 Chairman’s Message
  • 3 Letters
  • 5 NSS in Action
  • 6 Mission Control
  • 11 Countdown
  • 48 Shooting Gallery
    Twenty Years of the Space Shuttle
  • 54 NSS Chapters
  • 56 Spacefaring

Ad Astra 2001 (Volume 13 Number 2)

ON THE COVER: Shown are all of the vehicles that have carried humans into space during the last 40 years. Illustration by NSS member Richard Kruse.

Featured Articles:

  • 12
    Forty Years in Space: Human Spaceflight in Perspective
    By Howard McCurdy
  • 16
    A Space Shuttle Retrospective
    The role of the Space Shuttle in human spaceflight
    By Joan Johnson-Freese
  • 21
    The Spaceship that Came in From the Cold War
    The Untold Story of the DC-X

    By Andrew J. Butrica
  • 25
    A Space Enthusiast’s Political Primer
    By David S. Schuman
  • 28
    Humanity in Space
    The First 40 Years of Manned Space Vehicles in Scale Drawings
    By Richard Kruse
  • 30
    Storm of Fire: Could the Soviets Have Won the Moon Race?
    By David S. Michaels
  • 36
    Getting There Is Half the Fun
    The Evolution of Heavy Lift Rockets
    By Andrew J. LePage
  • 40
    NASA in the 21st Century
    By Taylor Dinerman
  • 44
    What Place in Space?
    Impacts and Future Prospects of the U.S. Pro-Space Movement
    By Amy Paige Snyder
  • 2 Chairman’s Message
  • 3 Letters
  • 5 NSS in Action
  • 6 Mission Control
  • 11 Countdown
  • 48 Shooting Gallery
    Twenty Years of the Space Shuttle
  • 54 NSS Chapters
  • 56 Spacefaring