Update: Why has the Falcon Heavy had so little impact on NASA?
OPINION by Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President This is an update to a January 21 post that generated some controversy in the comments section. The controversy was about the following statement in the January 21 blog post: “The second reason the Falcon Heavy has...
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Book Review: Defying Limits
This is the memoir of Dr. Dave Williams, a Canadian astronaut and former Director of Space and Life Sciences at NASA. An overarching message of performing your best, living life in the moment, and overcoming failure and adversity provides inspiration for anyone wishing to become an astronaut.
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Thinking about EELV Phase II funding and why SpaceX was left out of it
OPINION by Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President On October 10th, 2018, the Air Force announced the funding recipients for National Security Space Launch program, the new name for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program. Currently the EELV program...
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NSS Welcomes Emily Carney and This Space Available
Space hipster Emily Carney's This Space Available blog is now a part of the National Space Society blog. Emily started This Space Available on Blogspot in 2010 primarily as a space history blog where Emily shares her personal observations on astronauts and a wide...
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NSS Releases Position Paper: A Space Guard to Enable, Regulate, and Protect National Civil and Commercial Space Activities
NSS has released a new position paper entitled "A Space Guard to Enable, Regulate, and Protect National Civil and Commercial Space Activities." The abstract is below. Please note that a Space Guard is not a Space Force! Illustration above: An artist's impression of a...
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Blue Origin Aces NS-10 Test Flight to Space
Image: New Shepard flight NS-10 on the launch pad the morning of January 23rd, 2019. Courtesy Blue Origin. By Bob Brodbeck Blue Origin successfully launched the New Shepard suborbital rocket and uncrewed capsule to space today Wednesday January 23rd, and re-landed...
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NSS Releases Position Paper on Outer Space Private Investment Corporation (OSPIC)
The National Space Society has published a position paper on establishing an Outer Space Private Investment Corporation. The objective for this paper is to inform key leaders in government, the space industry and the finance community as to the potential benefits of a...
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Why has the Falcon Heavy had so little impact on NASA?
NOTE: An update of this post can be found here. OPINION by Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President On February 6, 2018 the first Falcon Heavy roared off the launch pad to a successful first flight. Elon Musk’s Red Tesla roadster soared in the direction of Mars to...
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March Storm 2019 Washington DC Congressional Visits
The Alliance for Space Development (ASD), the National Space Society (NSS) and the Space Frontier Foundation (SFF), are holding the annual March Storm Washington DC Blitz March 10-14, 2019. Sunday March 10 will be an all-day training event, followed by up to four days...
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First New Horizons Ultima Thule Flyby Images Released
The new year opened with another first for the U.S. space program - the successful flyby by New Horizons of the Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) Ultima Thule. At the time of the flyby, New Horizons was some 6.5 billion kilometers from the Sun and 6.6 billion kilometers from...
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Explores Primitive Solar System Asteroid
By Trevor J. Mills OSIRIS-REx has just entered orbit around asteroid Bennu on New Year's Eve, 2018. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is an asteroid sample return mission, similar to the...
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ISDC 2019 Program Submission Challenge
Shortly before Christmas I received an email from Madhu Thangavelu, chair of the Moon Development and Settlement programming track for the 2019 International Space Development Conference (ISDC). The email was a call for the submission of abstracts (presentation...
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