by National Space Society | Dec 24, 2018 | Commercial Space, Commercial Spaceflight, Space Colonization, Space Development, Space Settlement
Image: Starship Alpha construction at Boca Chica, December 23, 2018 (courtesy SpaceX). By Dale Skran NSS Executive Vice President Copyright 2018 I remember movies like When Worlds Collide. There was always, at least in my gauzy memory, a scene of the mighty rocket...
by National Space Society | Dec 3, 2018 | Commercial Space, Commercial Spaceflight, Space Development
Third Flight of the Same Falcon 9 Block 5 First Stage Makes History By Dale Skran NSS Executive Vice President In an earlier blog post (https://space.nss.org/the-spacex-triple-trifecta/) I described SpaceX’s three ambitious goals for 2018: Bring the Falcon Heavy (FH)...
by National Space Society | Nov 1, 2018 | Commercial Space, Event
NSS has arranged for special discount registrations for SpaceCom – The Space Commerce Conference and Exposition – which is the nation’s premier showcase of space technologies and the new business opportunities they create. With more than 250 NASA executives and 100+...
by National Space Society | Sep 1, 2018 | Commercial Space, Space Development
Image: JAXA astronaut Norishige Kanai with the Made in Space ZBLAN machine, courtesy NASA. By Dale Skran According to sources inside Made in Space, the company is getting ready for the third flight of their ZBLAN fiber optic cable manufacturing machine. The first...
by National Space Society | Aug 15, 2018 | Commercial Space, Space Development, Space Policy
A Magazine Review by Dale L Skran, NSS Executive Vice President The July 30, 2018 issue of Business Week is a special issue devote entirely to space. For the most part the articles are serious and interesting, with one glaring exception. NSS and its International...
by National Space Society | May 2, 2018 | Commercial Space, NASA, NSS Press Releases
Image: Axiom Station 1 Commercial Space Station Design. Credit: Axiom Space. On March 30th, 2018, NASA delivered to Congress the “International Space Station Transition Report” taking the first step toward a gapless transition from the government owned and...
by Dale Skran | Mar 28, 2018 | Commercial Space, Space Transportation
Image: SpaceX Trifecta: Falcon Heavy, Falcon 9 Block 5, Dragon 2 By Dale Skran, NSS Executive Vice President Copyright 2018 SpaceX has three major goals for 2018: Bring the Falcon Heavy to operational status Bring the Block 5 Falcon 9 to operational status Bring the...
