The Launch Landscape: A 5 Year Projection
A Speculation by Dale Skran There have been a number of interesting recent developments in terms of new launchers that are likely to be actually built, so it’s worth taking a look at what we can expect will be flying five years in the future, e.g., September 2026....
Webinar on the Importance of Space Clusters (October 14)
Webinar Date: October 14th Time: 11 AM Ecuador time (Central Daylight Time) Topic: Clusters as strategy for development: The importance of Space Clusters Register here Speakers: Greg Autry, PhD National Space Society Vice President for Space Development Clinical...
NSS Mourns the Passing of Robert Krone, Founder of the Kepler Space Institute
Krone’s Visionary and Humanistic Approach to the Study of Space Communities and Settlement Was Unique Image: Bob and Selena Krone. Credit: The Krone Family Robert “Bob” Krone, founder of the Kepler Space Institute (KSI) and longtime supporter of the National Space...
NSS Space Forum September 23: Shuttle Mission Control Stories
You are Invited to a National Space Society Space Forum Thursday, September 23, 2021, 9:00 to 10:15 PM EDT Shuttle Mission Control Stories With Guest Speaker Marianne Dyson REGISTER FOR THIS SPACE FORUM In Shuttle Mission Control Stories, Marianne Dyson explains the...
National Space Society Salutes the Flight of Inspiration4
First All-Civilian Orbital Flight is a Milestone This week marks the launch of the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight, Inspiration4, aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. “The flight of Inspiration4 is one of many firsts,” said Michelle Hanlon, president of the...
Book Review: Deja Doomed
A team of lunar explorers investigate a momentous discovery leading to an audacious mission aboard a restored extraterrestrial spacecraft to divert an extinction-capable asteroid from hitting Earth.
Book Review: Project Hail Mary
With this book Weir skips the rest of the solar system and heads straight out for interstellar space. Readers of science fiction that cares about both science/technology and people will find that Weir has come through, magnificently, yet again.
Book Review: “The Burning Blue” Humanizes Challenger Tragedy
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA’s Challenger Disaster by author Kevin Cook is in turns inspiring, maddening, and heartbreaking.
NSS Town Hall Sept 9: NSS Policy Committee
You are Invited to the National Space Society Town Hall Thursday, September 9, 202, 9:00 pm to 10:15 pm EDT REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT Subject: The NSS Policy Committee with Special Guests As a grass-roots advocacy and educational organization, the National Space...
Book Review: NASA Space Shuttle 40th Anniversary
The objective of this book is to tell the Shuttle’s story in a succinct manner and with the use of extensive illustrations, and the hundreds of pictures are spectacular, many of which I had never seen.
Book Review: Not Necessarily Rocket Science
One purpose of this autobiographical book is to provide examples of how those with non-technical degrees might find worthwhile and exciting careers in the space endeavor, and in this respect the author does well.
Space in the Seventies: Envisioning the Space Shuttle, 1970 – 1980
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. A sweep of 1970s NASA images reveals treasures chronicling the early development of the Space Shuttle program, which required the agency’s centers and workforce to devise new approaches in testing a vehicle that functioned as part rocket, part cargo ship, part science lab, and part airplane.
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