by National Space Society | Nov 18, 2020 | Commercial Space, NSS Press Releases, Space Policy
National Space Society’s Ongoing Support for Commercial Spaceflight Shows Results On Tuesday, at 11:01 pm Eastern Time, SpaceX’s Crew-1 flight successfully docked with the International Space Station in its first operational flight with a crew of four. The...
by National Space Society | Nov 17, 2020 | Space Law, Space Policy
By Bailey Cunningham, NSS Legal Fellow In 1897, H.G. Wells envisioned a Martian invasion. Today we know there is no need to panic, but that doesn’t mean we should be complacent about planetary defense. The threat posed by Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) is very real. NEOs...
by National Space Society | Nov 16, 2020 | Space Colonization, Space Settlement
By Dale Skran In a previous post on What Is a Space Settlement? I made a serious effort to define a “space settlement” and came up with this: “A space settlement” refers to a habitation in space or on a celestial body where families live on a permanent basis, and that...
by National Space Society | Nov 13, 2020 | Education
The National Space Club has established, with the initial support of Glen P. Wilson and the National Space Society, the National Space Club Space Educator Award. The award has been created to recognize the importance of U.S. secondary school teachers in motivating and...
by National Space Society | Nov 12, 2020 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction
Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Ted Spitzmiller Title: The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of NASA’s Visionary Leader George Low Author: Richard Jurek NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover Pages: 285 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Date:...
