Ad Astra 2017 Spring (Volume 29 Number 1)
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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 - 12
ISDC 2017
The Spirit of Exploration and Discovery
By St. Louis Space Frontier - 18
SPACE SOLAR POWER AND SPACE SETTLEMENT
Enabled and Enabler
By John C. Mankins - 20
SOLAR SAILS ARRIVE
By Les Johnson - 28
USING TWO MOONS TO MAKE “MARS DIRECT” SUSTAINABLE
By Al Anzaldua and Dave Dunlop - 32
AN UPDATE FROM NSS’ SPACE SETTLEMENT SUMMIT
By Rod Pyle - 36
TERRAFORMING MARS: COULD WE? SHOULD WE?
By Marianne Dyson - 40
ELON MUSK’S AUDACIOUS PLAN TO COLONIZE THE RED PLANET
By John F. Kross - 44
GERARD O’NEILL’S VISION FOR SPACE SETTLEMENT
The Dream at 40
By Clifford R. McMurray - 48
NSS WORKING FOR YOU: WHAT THE PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION MEANS FOR NASA
By Dale L. Skran
- 52
SPACE SETTLEMENT AND THE NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY
By Mark Hopkins - 54
THE ROAD TO UNISPACE 50
By Amanda Moore - 56
NSS CHAPTERS
Bringing Space Settlement Research to the World
By Claire Stephens McMurray
- 58
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 - 60
YOU CAN USE YOUR WILL TO CHANGE THE FUTURE
NSS Launches the Gerard O’Neill Voyagers Circle - 62
CHAPTER LISTINGS - 64
LAST WORD
August 14, 1968 — One of the UN Global Conferences
Ad Astra 2023 Winter (Volume 35 Number 1)
- 1
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 - 12
ISDC 2017
The Spirit of Exploration and Discovery
By St. Louis Space Frontier - 18
SPACE SOLAR POWER AND SPACE SETTLEMENT
Enabled and Enabler
By John C. Mankins - 20
SOLAR SAILS ARRIVE
By Les Johnson - 28
USING TWO MOONS TO MAKE “MARS DIRECT” SUSTAINABLE
By Al Anzaldua and Dave Dunlop - 32
AN UPDATE FROM NSS’ SPACE SETTLEMENT SUMMIT
By Rod Pyle - 36
TERRAFORMING MARS: COULD WE? SHOULD WE?
By Marianne Dyson - 40
ELON MUSK’S AUDACIOUS PLAN TO COLONIZE THE RED PLANET
By John F. Kross - 44
GERARD O’NEILL’S VISION FOR SPACE SETTLEMENT
The Dream at 40
By Clifford R. McMurray - 48
NSS WORKING FOR YOU: WHAT THE PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION MEANS FOR NASA
By Dale L. Skran
- 52
SPACE SETTLEMENT AND THE NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY
By Mark Hopkins - 54
THE ROAD TO UNISPACE 50
By Amanda Moore - 56
NSS CHAPTERS
Bringing Space Settlement Research to the World
By Claire Stephens McMurray
- 58
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 - 60
YOU CAN USE YOUR WILL TO CHANGE THE FUTURE
NSS Launches the Gerard O’Neill Voyagers Circle - 62
CHAPTER LISTINGS - 64
LAST WORD
August 14, 1968 — One of the UN Global Conferences
