Book Review: Dear Neil Armstrong
A must-have book for all space enthusiasts, this collection of letters, cards, telegrams, and e-mails gives readers an idea how fame affected Neil Armstrong’s life following Apollo 11. Society’s treatment, both good and bad, of heroes is demonstrated throughout this work.
The National Space Society Lauds Multi-National Signing of Artemis Accords
The National Space Society (NSS) commends NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine for his signal achievement announced on October 13 that seven countries have signed on to the Artemis Accords along with the United States. Those countries are Australia, Canada, Italy,...
NS-13: New Shepard Flights Successfully Resume
By Bob Brodbeck This morning at 8:36 am CST the Blue Origin New Shepard space flight program resumed at the company’s West Texas facility with the successful flight of mission NS-13, the thirteenth consecutive successful flight of the New Shepard suborbital launch...
The United States Government Should Stay in the Space Station Business
By Jessica Andrews, NSS Legal Fellow As a crowning achievement of international cooperation in tense times, the International Space Station (ISS) has housed various groups of space travelers since 2000. Currently the ISS is funded only through 2024, though the current...
Explore or Expire
By Samuel Thorpe, NSS Legal Fellow Why space? The National Space Society says, “because we must.” And it’s true. Long before the Babylonians started to document astronomical observations, and longer still before Hipparchus created the first recorded star chart, the...
From The George Low Archives: The 1974 Made-For-Television Movie That “Irked” Jim Lovell
On Saturday, March 2, 1974, the American network ABC released Houston, We’ve Got A Problem, the first known movie to have anything (tangentially or otherwise) to do with Apollo 13, the lunar mission that famously saw its landing canceled due to a nearly catastrophic explosion in space 50 years ago. Some documents from George Low’s archive now reveal the scope of Lovell’s unhappiness with the film’s script.
Book Review: Star Settlers
The subtitle of this book could be “A Writer Lavishes Faint Praise on Space Settlement.” Nadis is a good writer and has done extensive personal research to support the book, including journeys to interesting places and interviews with long-time but little-known space settlement advocates like myself. Nevertheless, no one reading this book will come away with a clear sense of why space settlement advocates want to settle space.
Book Review: The Jim Baen Memorial Award
The Jim Baen Memorial Award is a science fiction contest jointly administered by the National Space Society and Baen books, presented annually at the International Space Development Conference. The contest rules limit entries to short stories dealing with human space exploration in the next half-century or so. In this volume we have 16 winners and runners-up from the first decade of the award, all of them looking at various aspects of what living and working in space will be like for the pioneering generations.
Fuel for Thought
By Fisher Smith, NSS Legal Fellow Space, the final frontier of human exploration. For thousands of years, we have dreamed of going to the stars and in recent generations we’ve travelled further than many thought possible. But, today, save for the few men and women...
LEO Commercialization: The Pathway to Earth’s Trillion Dollar Space Economy Webinar
Today 's global $350 billion space economy will soon bloom into a trillion-dollar economy. Join the National Space Society for the virtual webinar LEO Commercialization: The Pathway to Earth's Trillion Dollar Space Economy on September 30 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (10...
An SPD-3 and NAPA Informed Model for a Safe and Sustainable Space Economy: Six Recommendations
NSS has just released a new Position Paper: "An SPD-3 and NAPA Informed Model for a Safe and Sustainable Space Economy: Six Recommendations." (Above illustration of space debris courtesy NASA.) Abstract The U.S. Administration’s Space Policy Directive-3 (SPD-3) in...
Why NASA Wants to Buy More Moon Rocks
A Small Announcement May Have Large Consequences for Space Development The National Space Society (NSS) enthusiastically supports NASA’s September 10 announcement to purchase Moon rocks from commercial companies. As part of its Artemis lunar program, NASA will pay a...
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