Ad Astra
The magazine of the National Space Society
Volume 13, Number 2 March – April 2001
ON THE COVER: Shown are all of the vehicles that have carried humans into space during the last 40 years. Illustration by NSS member Richard Kruse.
Featured Articles:
12
Forty Years in Space: Human Spaceflight in Perspective
By Howard McCurdy
16
A Space Shuttle Retrospective
The role of the Space Shuttle in human spaceflight
By Joan Johnson-Freese
21
The Spaceship that Came in From the Cold War
The Untold Story of the DC-X
By Andrew J. Butrica
25
A Space Enthusiast’s Political Primer
By David S. Schuman
28
Humanity in Space
The First 40 Years of Manned Space Vehicles in Scale Drawings
By Richard Kruse
30
Storm of Fire: Could the Soviets Have Won the Moon Race?
By David S. Michaels
36
Getting There Is Half the Fun
The Evolution of Heavy Lift Rockets
By Andrew J. LePage
40
NASA in the 21st Century
By Taylor Dinerman
44
What Place in Space?
Impacts and Future Prospects of the U.S. Pro-Space Movement
By Amy Paige Snyder
Departments:
2
Chairmans Message
3 Letters
5 NSS in Action
6 Mission Control
11 Countdown
48 Shooting Gallery
Twenty Years of the Space Shuttle
54 NSS Chapters
56 Spacefaring
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