10th Re-flight of a Falcon 9 Booster
By Dale Skran On May 9th at 2:42 AM a Falcon 9 roared skyward lofting another 60 Starlink satellites to orbit. Ho-hum! That’s the 11th Starlink launch on a Falcon 9 in 2021 so far, so what’s the big deal? SpaceX has been re-using F9 first stages for a long time. Take...
Book Review: A Pioneer’s Guide to Living on Mars
The Mars Pioneer’s Guide is a gold mine of ideas that touch on every aspect of building a base on Mars, and from there, expanding out to explore the length and breadth of the new world, learning its secrets and discovering how to build a society that is not dependent on a lifeline from Earth, but rather one that eventually is able to trade and interact with Earth on a peer-to-peer basis.
The National Space Society Cheers the Successful Flight of SpaceX Starship SN15
SpaceX’s Starship Breaks Another Record, Reaching all Milestones and Landing Safely Image: Starship SN15 after landing (SpaceX) On Wednesday May 5 at 6:24 pm Eastern Time, SpaceX’s Starship Serial Number 15 (SN15) lifted off from the company’s test facility in Boca...
Blue Origin’s First Astronaut Flight Scheduled for July 20th
One seat is up for auction. By Bob Brodbeck Image courtesy Blue Origin Today, May 5th, on the 60th anniversary of Alan Shepard’s Mercury 7 suborbital space flight, Blue Origin announced that astronaut flights aboard their New Shepard (NS) suborbital rocket and capsule...
NSS Space Forum: Early Aerospace Career Professionals
You are Invited to the National Space Society Space Forum Thursday, May 6, 2021, 9:00 to 10:15 PM EDT The Changing Face of Aerospace: Perspectives from a Panel of Early Career Professionals Register today to reserve your seat and to submit your questions. Register no...
Fostering Scalable, Resilient Utility Infrastructure for Cislunar Space
Below is a link to slides from an NSS presentation, "Fostering Scalable, Resilient Utility Infrastructure for Cislunar Space," at the Fifty-Eighth session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space of the United...
The National Space Society Mourns the Passing of Michael Collins
The National Space Society mourns the passing of Michael Collins, announced by his family this morning. Colonel Collins flew in space twice, once aboard Gemini 10 in 1966, and then as the Command Module Pilot aboard the mission of Apollo 11. We celebrate his...
Book Review: Operation Moonglow
Until reading this book I hadn’t realized the great extent to which international politics influenced NASA’s manned space programs. “[President] Nixon’s 1969 tour of Southeast Asia and Romania was codenamed Operation Moonglow because of the expectation that Apollo 11’s popularity and prestige would lend their sheen to the president’s new foreign policy initiatives.”
National Space Society Celebrates the Success of NASA/JPL MOXIE Experiment on Mars
On Tuesday, an experimental unit on NASA’s Perseverance rover called MOXIE achieved a remarkable milestone on Mars, extracting oxygen from the Martian atmosphere. “The success of MOXIE is an amazing accomplishment that has vast implications for supporting humans on...
National Space Society Optimistic after Senate Confirmation Hearing for New NASA Chief
National Space Society leaders were optimistic about NASA’s future following Wednesday’s Senate confirmation hearing regarding former Senator Bill Nelson as the new NASA Administrator. “Today’s hearing was a fine example of the American political system finding the...
National Space Society Congratulates NASA/JPL on the Flight of Ingenuity
The National Space Society extends its heartiest congratulations to the team behind the Mars helicopter Ingenuity, the Perseverance rover, and the infrastructure orbiting the Red Planet. For a dazzling half-minute, Ingenuity rose about 10 feet above the Martian...
NSS Space Forum: Space Law to Support Future Communities in Space
You are invited to the National Space Society Space Forum Thursday, April 22, 2021, 9:00 to 10:15 PM EDT New Perspectives on Filling the Gaps in Space Law to Support Future Communities in Space Register today to reserve your seat and to submit your questions. With...
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