Featured Articles:
15
Throwing Pebbles at the Sky
TANYA OF MARS
By Geoffrey Notkin
18
ACHIEVING GREATNESS:
Three Factors that Produced a “First Man”
By Anthony Paustian
21
NASA’S NEWEST ROADMAP TO DEEP SPACE
By John F. Kross
28
SEARCHING FOR A SECOND EARTH
By Clifford R. McMurray
34
SPACE 2.0 BOOK EXCERPT
CHAPTER 16: SETTLING THE FINAL FRONTIER
By Geoff Notkin
37
GAINING INSIGHT INTO MARS
By Rod Pyle
42
GLIMPSING THE “TIPPING POINT”
at the Space Settlement Summit 2018
By Al Anzaldua
46
THE TIME HAS COME FOR SPACE SOLAR POWER
By John C. Mankins
50
HOW 2018 BECAME THE FIRST YEAR OF SPACE
By Dale Skran
Departments:
7
ON MISSION SUCCESS: A Message from the New Editor
By Rod Pyle
13
From the Executive Committee Chair
A $178 MILLION INFUSION FOR SPACE SOLAR POWER
By Mark Hopkins
54
NSS CHAPTER EVENTS REACH THOUSANDS
By Claire Stephens McMurray
58
BOOKS
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos, by Christian Davenport
Reviewed by Clifford R. McMurray
Interplanetary Robots: True Stories of Space Exploration, by Rod Pyle
Reviewed by Martin J. Lollar
The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future, by Roger Launius
Reviewed by Rod Pyle
The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight, by John Logsdon
Reviewed by Rod Pyle
61
MOVIE REVIEW
First Man
Reviewed by Emily Carney
63
NSS CHAPTERS