Ad Astra Volume 20 Number 4 – Winter 2008

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Ad Astra 2008 Winter (Volume 20 Number 4)

On The Cover: An artist’s rendering of an asteroid moments before an imminent impact with Earth. The question of such an impact is not if but when. Illustration: Stephen Prater.

Featured Articles:

  • Note: The entire Special Report on “The Threat of Impact” (comprising pages 22-46 of this issue)
  • 16
    SHACKLETON DOME
    What it will take to build a 25-mile-diameter, 5,000-foot-tall domed lunar city.
    By Edward McCullough
  • 22
    BEYOND THE SHUTTLE
    With the pending retirment of the space shuttle fleet, NASA makes plans to use Russian spacecraft to maintain the International Space Station.
    By Ted Spitzmiller
  • 30
    DEALING WITH THE THREAT OF IMPACT
    Detection, deflection, or deep impact?
    By Russel L. Schweickart
  • 36
    REMOVING THE BLINDERS
    One of the greatest threats to civilization remains unaccounted for.
    By Peter Garretson
  • 40
    FOOTPRINTS ON NEO’S
    Possibly more accessible than the Moon, could a near Earth asteroid be the next stop for manned space exploration?
    By Mark Williamson
  • 46
    NEAR EARTH OPPORTUNITIES
    A new way to consider the asteroid threat
    By Brad Blair
  • 48
    SPACE SOLAR POWER: ENERGY FOR THE FUTURE
    By Lt.Col. Paul E. Damphousse, USMC
  • 50
    SPACE SOLAR POWER:
    AN INVESTMENT FOR TODAY, AN ENERGY SOLUTION FOR TOMORROW

    A statement of support from the National Space Society
  • 9
    From the Editor:
    SPACE FARMS, A RETURN TO THE MOON, AND ART IN ORBIT
    By Rod Pyle
  • 10
    From the NSS COO:
    THE OTHER FINAL FRONTIER
    Why Not Build Undersea Settlements?
    By Dale Skran
  • Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong, by Greg Brennecka
    Reviewed by Doug Adler
  • Critical Mass, by Daniel Suarez
    Reviewed by Susan Raizer
  • When the Race Was Won, by Bart Colomb
    Reviewed by Rod Pyle
  • Astrotopia, by Mary-Jane Rubenstein
    Reviewed by Dale Skran

 

66
NSS Chapters

Ad Astra 2023 Winter (Volume 35 Number 1)

On The Cover: An artist’s rendering of an asteroid moments before an imminent impact with Earth. The question of such an impact is not if but when. Illustration: Stephen Prater.

Featured Articles:

  • Note: The entire Special Report on “The Threat of Impact” (comprising pages 22-46 of this issue)
  • 16
    SHACKLETON DOME
    What it will take to build a 25-mile-diameter, 5,000-foot-tall domed lunar city.
    By Edward McCullough
  • 22
    BEYOND THE SHUTTLE
    With the pending retirment of the space shuttle fleet, NASA makes plans to use Russian spacecraft to maintain the International Space Station.
    By Ted Spitzmiller
  • 30
    DEALING WITH THE THREAT OF IMPACT
    Detection, deflection, or deep impact?
    By Russel L. Schweickart
  • 36
    REMOVING THE BLINDERS
    One of the greatest threats to civilization remains unaccounted for.
    By Peter Garretson
  • 40
    FOOTPRINTS ON NEO’S
    Possibly more accessible than the Moon, could a near Earth asteroid be the next stop for manned space exploration?
    By Mark Williamson
  • 46
    NEAR EARTH OPPORTUNITIES
    A new way to consider the asteroid threat
    By Brad Blair
  • 48
    SPACE SOLAR POWER: ENERGY FOR THE FUTURE
    By Lt.Col. Paul E. Damphousse, USMC
  • 50
    SPACE SOLAR POWER:
    AN INVESTMENT FOR TODAY, AN ENERGY SOLUTION FOR TOMORROW

    A statement of support from the National Space Society
  • 9
    From the Editor:
    SPACE FARMS, A RETURN TO THE MOON, AND ART IN ORBIT
    By Rod Pyle
  • 10
    From the NSS COO:
    THE OTHER FINAL FRONTIER
    Why Not Build Undersea Settlements?
    By Dale Skran
  • Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong, by Greg Brennecka
    Reviewed by Doug Adler
  • Critical Mass, by Daniel Suarez
    Reviewed by Susan Raizer
  • When the Race Was Won, by Bart Colomb
    Reviewed by Rod Pyle
  • Astrotopia, by Mary-Jane Rubenstein
    Reviewed by Dale Skran

 

66
NSS Chapters