by National Space Society | Jan 20, 2021 | Commercial Space
By Dale Skran, NSS CEO On January 20th SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The first stage safely returned to Earth, landing on the drone ship “Just Read the Instructions.” Just another day on the Cape for...
by National Space Society | Jan 14, 2021 | Commercial Space, Space Development, Space Tourism
By Bob Brodbeck Activities in the suborbital space tourism arena indicate that it is highly likely this business will finally become operational, flying paying passengers to space, this year. Earlier today at their west Texas facility, Blue Origin successfully...
by National Space Society | Jan 10, 2021 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction
Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Loretta Hall Title: How to Astronaut: An Insider’s Guide to Leaving Planet Earth Author: Terry Virts NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover/Kindle Pages: 320 Publisher: Page Street Publishing Date: September 15, 2020...
by National Space Society | Jan 5, 2021 | Space Development, Space Law, Space Policy
By Fisher Smith, NSS Legal Fellow Why should we spend the money, effort and time focusing on outer space exploration and development? After all, it’s a very expensive process to get resources, people and infrastructure into space. Wouldn’t that money be better spent...
by National Space Society | Jan 1, 2021 | Commercial Space
By Dale Skran Having just written a 2020 SpaceX year in review wrap up (which included a preview of 2021), I thought it would be fun to go back and look at the 2020 Space X preview I wrote a year ago and see how accurate it was. I’ve included the entire text of the...
