by National Space Society | Mar 29, 2022 | Commercial Space, Event
The National Space Society invites you to a Space Forum on Thursday, March 31, 202, 9:00 pm to 10:15 pm EDT Expanding Frontiers: Astropreneurship in South Texas With Special Guest Fredrick Jenet, Founder and Executive Director, Expanding Frontiers Register here!...
by Dave Dressler | Mar 3, 2022 | Astronauts, Commercial Space, Commercial Spaceflight, Education, Event, International Space Station, Space
Better Futures is a new event series produced by Liftport Group which aims to bring together space community leaders to discuss space topics of interest. Our monthly series “The Star Fleet Enterprise” is covering the idea of a 15,000 person space station and what it...
by National Space Society | Feb 17, 2022 | Commercial Space
© by Dale Skran, NSS Chief Operating Officer Image: February 3 Starlink launch, courtesy SpaceX SpaceX has just completed a remarkable ten launch sequence in the two months starting 12/2/21 and ending 2/2/22, running at a rate of more than one orbital rocket per week....
by National Space Society | Feb 9, 2022 | Commercial Space, Event
On behalf of the National Space Society you are invited to a Watch Party Thursday, February 10, 2022, 8:50 pm to 10:00 pm EST ELON MUSK SPACEX STARSHIP UPDATE Hosted by Burt Dicht and Fred Becker SpaceX founder Elon Musk is scheduled to provide an update on his Moon...
by National Space Society | Dec 31, 2021 | Commercial Space, Space Tourism
© by Dale Skran, NSS Chief Operating Officer Image: Inspiration4 crew, courtesy Inspiration4 I can’t believe I am finally writing this, but 2021 was the year that space tourism “rebooted” big time. The first epoch of space tourism started on April 28, 2001, with the...
by National Space Society | Dec 29, 2021 | Commercial Space
© by Dale Skran, NSS Chief Operating Officer Image: Launch from Cosmic Girl, courtesy Virgin Orbit In terms of U.S. launch companies, SpaceX is lapping the field, and Rocket Lab holds out promise—at least in terms of number of launches (not mass to orbit), Rocket Lab...
by National Space Society | Dec 27, 2021 | Commercial Space
© by Dale Skran, NSS Chief Operating Officer Image: Planned Neutron rocket with “chomper” fairing. Courtesy Rocket Lab. Rocket Lab continued as the Venture Class launcher leader in 2021 in spite of the loss of one mission, and a failure to bring Launch...
by National Space Society | Dec 26, 2021 | Commercial Space
© by Dale Skran, NSS Chief Operating Officer Image: Starships on the pad at Boca Chica, courtesy SpaceX The covid pandemic roared through 2021 leaving death in its wake, and at one-point hospitals were using so much liquid oxygen that SpaceX stood down for almost two...
