Space Research Can Save the Planet — Again
From Dale Skran, Chair of the NSS Executive Committee: NSS VP of Space Development Greg Autry has an essay on the American Energy Society website. The link is here: https://www.energysociety.org/space-research-can-save-the-planet.html This article provides a great...
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Book Review: Ambassadors from Earth
Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft, by Jay Gallentine. Reviewed by Clifford R. McMurray. It’s impossible to do justice to the epic scope of this book in a short review. What Tom Wolfe did for the astronauts in The Right Stuff, Gallentine does for robotic explorers in this wonderful book.
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50/50 Lunar Legends – new “hidden figures of space” documentary
A grass-roots media project involving some NSS members is now available on Amazon Prime: "50/50 Lunar Legends" a new documentary about the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing and hidden figures of the U.S. space program from Apollo to the present. 50 people were...
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Starhopper Demonstrates First Untethered Flight and SpaceX’s Rapid Pace of Innovation
By George Mancuso On July 25, 2019 Starhopper rose to an altitude of approximately 20 meters at the SpaceX McGregor Texas facility while also performing a pad translation. Starhopper is a low fidelity prototype, intended to test Raptor engines and control systems for...
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NSS Position Paper: How Space Technology Benefits the Earth
The purpose of this just-released NSS Position Paper is to clarify and explain current and potential benefits of space-based capabilities for life on Earth from environmental, social, and economic perspectives, including: A) Space activities having a positive impact...
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NSS Leader Dale Skran presents “New Rides to the Moon” to United Astronomy Clubs of NJ
On July 20, 2019 at 8 pm, Dale Skran, NSS Chair of the Executive Committee spoke to a small but enthusiastic crowd at the headquarters of the United Astronomy Clubs of New Jersey on the topic “New Rides to the Moon.” The UACNJ includes 12 astronomy clubs in the New...
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Space Solar Power: Enabling a Green Future with Economic Growth
NSS has just issued a new Position Paper on "Space Solar Power: Enabling a Green Future with Economic Growth." The United States and the rest of the world face a two-fold energy problem: (1) the need to find clean alternative sources of energy to move away from fossil...
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Looking up to New York on Apollo’s 50th Anniversary
By Jerome Glasnovic If you have a house with a basement and it was built before the 1980s, if you look up in your basement you may see a steel I-Beam supporting your house which is stamped with the word “Bethlehem.” Bethlehem Steel was once the largest steel factory...
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Home District Congressional Visits: “Fall Fury 2019”
It’s time for this year’s Fall Fury Home District Blitz sign-up! Sign-up link is at the end of this post. For those of you unaware, Fall Fury (previously August Blitz) is an Alliance for Space Development event which takes place right at home. NSS is a co-founder of...
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Control of Habitat Carbon Dioxide Level: New in the NSS Space Settlement Journal
New in the NSS Space Settlement Journal is the article Control of Habitat’s Carbon Dioxide Level by Biomass Burning by Pekka Janhunen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki. Abstract Consider a free-space settlement with a closed ecosystem. Controlling...
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Book Review: One Giant Leap
Reviewed by: Robert A. Lee. Title: One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon. Author: Charles Fishman. I have read much about the Apollo program and still learned new and interesting facts in this book.
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A New Website for NSS Chicago Society for Space Studies
The NSS chapter Chicago Society for Space Studies (CSSS) has just launched their new website with the primary objective of improving the chapter’s web presence and enhancing support for their speakers bureau..
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