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Book Review: Far Side of the Moon
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Clifford R. McMurray Title: Far Side of the Moon: Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and the Woman Who Gave Him Wings Author: Lisa Jorgenson NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover/Kindle Pages: 336 Publisher: Chicago Review...
Zoom Meeting with “First Man” author James R. Hansen December 5th
The Iowa Chapter of the National Space Society is pleased to announce that our guest speaker for December 5th is author and space historian James R. Hansen, perhaps best known to many of you for his definitive biography of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, First...
Happy Thanksgiving to all you Space Advocates out there!!!
OPINION By Dale Skran Lots of publications run special Thanksgiving stories, or provide an editorial that opines on how lucky we are to live in the USA, or to live in the 21st century, or to have our homes, families, and jobs. Sometimes a science or engineering outlet...
Celebrate “Breakfast on the Moon” December 10
By Joseph Bland Sacramento L5 Society The Sacramento L5 Society chapter of NSS will host the final 50th anniversary "Breakfast on the Moon" event, a live Zoom-based celebration of the Apollo program. This time, we’ll be celebrating not just the magical Apollo 17...
The View from National Space Society Headquarters
By Burt Dicht NSS Managing Director of Membership I took this photo of the Artemis 1 launch just outside the back door of the building that contains the new NSS office! As a member of the Apollo Generation, I confess to being envious when friends, colleagues and...
In the Shadow of the “Mega Rocket”
By Dale Skran With the long-awaited November 16, 2022 launch of the much delayed and far over budget Space Launch System on the Artemis 1 mission, many eyes have turned to NASA with the general view that at long last something like the glory of Apollo is on the...
The National Space Society Salutes the Start of NASA’s Artemis Program
Today's Launch is NASA’s First Step Toward a New Age of Lunar Exploration and Development The National Space Society applauds the successful inauguration of Artemis program operations. The Artemis I mission to lunar orbit, which launched in the early morning hours of...
NSS Forum November 10: Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
The National Space Society invites you to the next Space Forum Thursday, November 10, 2022, 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm EDT Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS): A Conversation with SEDS-USA Leaders Live from the SEDS SpaceVision Conference Register...
Twelve for Twelve: Celebrating This Space Available’s Anniversary with Space Literature
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. To celebrate twelve years of This Space Available, here are twelve spaceflight books – in no particular order, some new, some older – that I’m either enjoying or planning to devour soon.
NSS of North Texas Hears Presentation on Finding Asteroids
By Robin Scott Image: Visualizing the trajectories through the solar system of asteroids discovered by ADAM. Credits: B612 Asteroid Institute, University of Washington DiRAC Institute, and OpenSpace Project. NSS of North Texas welcomed Joachim Moeyens, Graduate...
Book Review: Back to the Moon (2022)
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler Title: Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind Author: Joseph Silk NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover/Kindle Pages: 304 Publisher: Princeton University Press Date: November 2022 Retail Price:...
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Falcon Heavy Soars (Update)
By Dale Skran Image: Falcon Heavy boosters landed (SpaceX, November 1, 2022) I was planning to write an overall update on the status of the seemingly never-ending cage match “SLS vs all comers” but with an increasing probability that we will have one (or maybe two)...
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