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A potential Earth destroying disaster looms so humanity must establish a colony on Mars soon This is the premise driving Arcadia Mars Though fiction this
Sometimes young adult novels from the past define the desired values and pulse of an entire era One book series very aggressively marketed to teenage
This novel is the second book of an alternate history trilogy chronicling the lives of two pilots in a secret Air Force program called Blue
Author Kim Stanley Robinson writes of turmoil strife political revolution and poetry on a Moon mostly settled by China A sensory novel delivering the experience
Category Fiction Reviewed by Clifford R McMurray From Ad Astra Summer 2018 Title Blue Gemini Author Mike Jenne NSS Amazon link for this book Format
Saturn Run by John Standford and Ctein reviewed by Peter Spasov The U S and China race to seize technological secrets from an extraterrestrial visitor
This Insubstantial Pageant by Kate Story Reviewed by Peter Spasov Based on Shakespeare s The Tempest an interstellar crew encounter strange botanical beings love revenge
Mission to Methone by Les Johnson A prospecting mission finds an asteroid that turns out to be an ancient alien spacecraft Reviewed by Bart Leahy
Arkwright by Allen Steele 2016 The Arkwright foundation sends a robotic ship with frozen human gametes to an exoplanet twenty two light years from Earth
Walking on the Sea of Clouds by Gray Rinehart 2017 A hard science fiction novel gritty and realistic about the first commercial colony on the
Europa s Lost Expedition by Michael Carroll 2016 Carroll s thoughtful storytelling extrapolated from real science turns Jupiter s moon Europa into a real place
Category Fiction Reviewed by Mark Lardas Title Mission Tomorrow New Stories of the Future of Space Exploration Editor Bryan Thomas Schmidt NSS Amazon link for
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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
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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
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