Featured Articles:
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AN ARTFUL WAY OF LIVING AND WORKING IN SPACE SETTLEMENTS
A Look at the Winners of the Roadmap to Space Settlement Student Art Contest
By Lynne F. Zielinski
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ISDC 2017
The Spirit of Exploration and Discovery
By St. Louis Space Frontier
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SPACE SOLAR POWER AND SPACE SETTLEMENT
Enabled and Enabler
By John C. Mankins
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SOLAR SAILS ARRIVE
By Les Johnson
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USING TWO MOONS TO MAKE “MARS DIRECT” SUSTAINABLE
By Al Anzaldua and Dave Dunlop
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AN UPDATE FROM NSS’ SPACE SETTLEMENT SUMMIT
By Rod Pyle
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TERRAFORMING MARS: COULD WE? SHOULD WE?
By Marianne Dyson
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ELON MUSK’S AUDACIOUS PLAN TO COLONIZE THE RED PLANET
By John F. Kross
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GERARD O’NEILL’S VISION FOR SPACE SETTLEMENT
The Dream at 40
By Clifford R. McMurray
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NSS WORKING FOR YOU: WHAT THE PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION MEANS FOR NASA
By Dale L. Skran
Departments (NSS Lounge):
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SPACE SETTLEMENT AND THE NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY
By Mark Hopkins
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THE ROAD TO UNISPACE 50
By Amanda Moore
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NSS CHAPTERS
Bringing Space Settlement Research to the World
By Claire Stephens McMurray
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BOOKS
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight, by Julian Guthrie
Reviewed by Clifford R. McMurray
Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe, by Mike Massimino
Reviewed by Susan Raizer
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YOU CAN USE YOUR WILL TO CHANGE THE FUTURE
NSS Launches the Gerard O’Neill Voyagers Circle
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CHAPTER LISTINGS
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LAST WORD
August 14, 1968 — One of the UN Global Conferences