Perspectives on Artemis Accords at Online ISDC June 27
By Michelle Hanlon President, National Space Society Sunday, June 27 at 1:00 PM Eastern time. NSS has planned a special program, devoting two hours to explore and answer your questions about the Artemis Accords. I am honored to be joined by Dr. Andrea Harrington,...
NSS Supports Scott Pace SpaceNews OpEd
Scott Pace, former NSS Executive Vice President, former Executive Secretary of the National Space Council, and Director of the Space Policy Institute at the Elliott School of International Affairs, has written an OpEd in SpaceNews called "NOAA is stalling U.S. space...
Guayaquil NSS Chapter Hosts International Panel on Artemis Accords
The Guayaquil Space Society (GSS), a Chapter of NSS in the largest city in Ecuador, hosted a meeting on May 19, 2021, titled SPACE LAW: ARTEMIS ACCORDS AND ECUADOR. The entire presentation is available on YouTube. All but the first presentation is in English....
NSS Town Hall June 17: Preview of Virtual ISDC and NSS Membership Overview
You are Invited to the National Space Society Space Forum / Virtual Town Hall Thursday, June 17 2021, 9:00 to 10:15 PM EDT A Preview of the Virtual International Space Development Conference (ISDC) 2021 with and an NSS Membership Overview with REGISTER HERE FOR THE...
Sign up for ISDC Interactive Sunday now
On Sunday June 27th, 2021, from 1-6 pm ET, NSS is hosting Interactive ISDC Sunday, a pay-per-view event that brings participants into contact with leading space experts in an interactive format. These discussions are challenging and stimulating. They are not short,...
NASA Chief Scientist Dr. Jim Green to Appear at the Online NSS International Space Development Conference 2021
This Year’s Virtual Conference Streams Free to All The National Space Society is proud to announce NASA’s Chief Scientist, Jim Green, as a keynote speaker at its annual International Space Development Conference® 2021, which will be held virtually this year from June...
The National Space Society Announces YouTube Influencer Isaac Arthur as a Keynote Speaker at the Online 2021 International Space Development Conference
This Year’s Virtual Conference Streams Free to All The National Space Society is proud to announce YouTube influencer Isaac Arthur as a keynote speaker at its annual International Space Development Conference® 2021, which will be held virtually this year from June 24...
Book Review: The Mission
Brown’s The Mission chronicles years of near-byzantine maneuvers to accomplish a space mission—except that the Europa Clipper has yet to launch. Extensively researched with photographs and notes, the book is also creatively written with segments of near novel-like narration and dialogue.
Book Review: American Rocketman
Truax is all but forgotten to everyone but space historians, but he deserves to be remembered. Had he ever persuaded the navy or any major aerospace contractor to build his “big dumb booster” called Sea Dragon, we might have seen the sort of payloads and cost performance promised by Elon Musk’s Starship decades earlier.
Astronaut Peggy Whitson Announced as a Keynote Speaker at the Online 2021 International Space Development Conference
The National Space Society’s 2021 Virtual Conference is Free to All The National Space Society is proud to announce former NASA astronaut Dr. Peggy Whitson as a keynote speaker at its annual International Space Development Conference® 2021 (ISDC), which will be held...
NSS Advances SpaceX Collier Nomination to the Finals
By Dale Skran Image: Crew 2 capsule April 21, 2021, courtesy SpaceX. On June 2, an NSS team defended the NSS nomination of the Falcon 9/Dragon 2 for the 2020 Collier Trophy in the finals of the event. The team consisted of Dale Skran, NSS Chief Operating Officer, Greg...
Space In The Seventies: ATS-6, Apollo-Soyuz, and TDRSS
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. One experimental satellite program contributed to the actual Apollo-Soyuz mission in July 1975, and later, to less interruptions in voice and data during the Space Shuttle program and at present time, the International Space Station (ISS). This blog series, called Space In The Seventies, starts with a look back at the Applications Technology Satellites (ATS), described by NASA in a June 1971 booklet called Satellites At Work as “a testing laboratory for new concepts.”
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