Cover image: Grand Prize Winner of the 2013 NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement International Student Art Contest: “Asteroid Mining Module” by Aleksandra Voinea, 11th Grade, Bucharest, Romania, illustrating Roadmap Milestone 18.
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INSPIRATION MARS
By Clifford McMurray
16 MILESTONES TO SPACE SETTLEMENT: AN NSS ROADMAP
PART I: INTRODUCTION
OUTLINE OF THE ROADMAP
PART II: MILESTONES TO ALL DESTINATIONS
PART III: UTILIZATION OF SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND RESOURCES
PART IV: TO THE MOON
PART V: TO MARS
PART VI: TO THE ASTEROIDS
PART VII: TO ORBITAL SPACE SETTLEMENTS
PART VIII: TO THE STARS
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THE COLONIZATION OF (NEAR) SPACE
By Keith Henson and Steve Nixon
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ROADMAP ART CONTEST
Student Art Contest Envisions Future Space Settlements
By Lynne F. Zielinski
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IMPLEMENTING THE NSS VISION
By the Sacramento L5 Society Chapter of NSS
Departments:
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ISDC 2014 UPDATE
The 33rd International Space Development Conference
By Pat Montoure
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LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
By Pat Silver
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NSS ANNOUNCEMENTS
Caribbean Space Summit 2014
By Luisa Fernanda Zambrano-Marin, et.al.
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LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIR
Paradigm Shift: Interstellar Space Settlement Made Easy
By Mark Hopkins
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BOOKS
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, by Annalee Newitz
Reviewed by Dale L. Skran, Jr.
Dreams of Other Worlds: The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration, by Chris Impey and Holly Henry
Reviewed by Charlene Brusso
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CHAPTER LISTINGS
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SIGNING OFF
Cubesats Released from Space Station