Watch Nashik India NSS Chapter’s Space Week Events Streamed Live October 4-10
By Claire McMurray, NSS Chapters Reporter (Corrected from earlier post) The Nashik, India National Space Society chapter, only two years old, has organized an entire week of events on the Space Week theme “Space Unites the World” in association with a 104-year-old...
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Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Lunar Lander
Blue Origin in the conceptual design phase of a large lunar lander (called Blue Moon) capable of bringing several metric tons of cargo to the Moon, providing reusable access to the lunar surface and its resources. Blue Origin states: "Moving heavy industry from Earth...
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Middle school students debate the future of our world within the universe at ISDC
By Zach Reizes Introductory note from NSS President Alice M. Hoffman, PE: NSS is seeking sponsors and judges for the debates described below at ISDC 2019 on June 6-9 in Washington DC. Check out the video our volunteers produced below, and contact me at...
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Optimal Size for Space Settlements: New in the NSS Space Settlement Journal
New in the NSS Space Settlement Journal are two articles that deal at least in part with the optimal size for space settlements. The 5-Kilometer "Sweet Spot" The first paper by Pekka Janhunen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute deals primarily with illumination in...
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NSS Chapter News Roundup
By Claire McMurray, NSS Chapters Reporter NSS Japan Chapter President Speaks to 3000 Students Contrary to our name, NSS is a very international organization. Taichi Yamazaki, President of the NSS Japan Chapter and CEO and Commercial Astronaut of ASTRAX, Inc., spoke...
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Book Review: Piercing the Horizon: The Story of Visionary NASA Chief Tom Paine
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Clifford R. McMurray Title: Piercing the Horizon: The Story of Visionary NASA Chief Tom Paine Author: Sunny Tsiao NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover, Kindle Pages: 266 Publisher: Purdue University Press Date: October 2017...
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Third Time’s the Charm: ZBLAN Manufacturing on the ISS
Image: JAXA astronaut Norishige Kanai with the Made in Space ZBLAN machine, courtesy NASA. By Dale Skran According to sources inside Made in Space, the company is getting ready for the third flight of their ZBLAN fiber optic cable manufacturing machine. The first...
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Hayabusa 2 Exploring Solar System Resources
Illustration by Akihiro Ikeshita (C) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) By Trevor Mills What is Hayabusa2? Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa2 (“Peregrine Falcon” in Japanese) is a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) spacecraft which is scheduled to return a...
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2018 International Space Development Conference Publicity Roundup
Here is a roundup of publicity from the National Space Society's 2018 International Space Development Conference BEZOS https://www.geekwire.com/2018/jeff-bezos-isdc-space-vision/ Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet...
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St. Louis Chapter Bright Ideas Expo
By Judy Tippett On August 11th our St. Louis Space Frontier NSS Chapter participated in sharing our bright ideas at the St. Louis Science Center. Along with a table in the hall covered with information about our upcoming events and a Moon globe, we had a room of our...
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Reusable Rocket to Carry Student and Medical Research Payloads into Space
Researching science in space has long been a costly endeavor. A rocket launching from New Mexico's Spaceport America this Saturday may help change that when an EXOS Aerospace SARGE test flight heads into space carrying student and other research experiments. Tune in...
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The Great Rocket Race
The 11-minute video below by an outfit called Startup Division depicts the formidable competition that Space-X is and will be facing for lowered launch costs. Worth a watch. The race is heating...
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