Cover image: Grand Prize Winner of the 2014 NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement International Student Art Contest: “Arcturus Space Settlement” by Bogdan Alexandru Cionca, 11th Grade, Bucharest, Romania, illustrating Roadmap Milestone 19.
Featured Articles:
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THE OTHER SUBORBITAL MARKET:
COMMERCIAL AND RESEARCH PAYLOADS
By Clifford McMurray
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CHASING THE DREAM
Sierra Nevada Corp’s Mini Shuttle
By Mark Williamson
22
REDUCING THE RISK OF LONG-DURATION SPACEFLIGHT
By Marianne Dyson
28
EQUILIBRIUM
Astronauts relearn how to plant feet on the ground after long-duration spaceflight
By Travis K. Kircher
32
EFT-1: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
By Bart Leahy
36
A CHANCE ENCOUNTER
What a passing comet can teach us about Mars
By Roxann Elliott
40
EARTH: ONE GRAIN IN A FIELD OF MILLET
By Lance Frazer
42
ENTERPRISE IN
SPACE:
Changing Science Fiction into Science Fact
By Christopher Bryan Jones
45
CONSTRUCTING SPACE HABITATS
The NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement Student Art Contest
By Lynne F. Zielinski
46
A TALE OF TWO SPACE SETTLEMENT BILLS
By Steve Wolfe
Departments:
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LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
By Pat Silver
8
NSS ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dateline Orion
By John F. Kross
10
NSS CORRESPONDENCE
NSS Looks Forward to an Exciting 2015
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LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIR
The Implications of 3D Printing for Space Settlements
By Mark Hopkins
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BOOKS
2001: The Heritage and Legacy of The Space Odyssey, by Frederick I. Ordway, III and Robert Godwin
Reviewed by Ted Spitzmiller
Infinite Worlds: The People and Places of Space Exploration, by Michael Soluri
Reviewed by Robert A. Lee
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CHAPTER LISTINGS
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SIGNING OFF
Orion Recovery
