by National Space Society | Feb 12, 2021 | Event, National Space Society, Space Colonization, Space Settlement
REBROADCAST! Please join us on Saturday, February 13, for a rebroadcast of Space Settlement 2021. This exciting, one-day virtual event examines the science and technology of human spaceflight and looks at the future of space settlement. And best of all, it’s entirely...
by National Space Society | Feb 11, 2021 | Space Colonization, Space Development, Space Settlement
OPINION by Dale Skran, NSS CEO With thanks to Fred Becker, Greg Autry, and Al Globus for their suggestions. Image of Starship taking off from lunar base courtesy SpaceX. A common refrain among some NSS members and other space interested people is that although...
by National Space Society | Jan 30, 2021 | Event, National Space Society, Space Colonization, Space Settlement
Please join us on Thursday, February 4, 2021 for Space Settlement 2021. This exciting, one-day virtual event examines the science and technology of human spaceflight, and looks at the future of space settlement. And best of all, it’s entirely FREE! Begins at noon...
by National Space Society | Nov 16, 2020 | Space Colonization, Space Settlement
By Dale Skran In a previous post on What Is a Space Settlement? I made a serious effort to define a “space settlement” and came up with this: “A space settlement” refers to a habitation in space or on a celestial body where families live on a permanent basis, and that...
by National Space Society | Jul 24, 2020 | Space Colonization, Space Development, Space Settlement
Isaac Arthur, recipient of the NSS Space Pioneer Award for Education via Mass Media, has posted this 20-minute video based on the first 12 milestones in the NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement.
by Emily Carney | Apr 18, 2020 | Astronauts, Space Colonization, Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney When I started researching and writing this series last year, it was months before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived Stateside, entering the U.S. – and the entire world – by force into an uncertain new era. As these events and this...
by National Space Society | Apr 1, 2020 | NSS Website Updates, Space Colonization, Space Settlement
New in the NSS Space Settlement Journal is the article Shielded Dumbbell L5 Settlement by Pekka Janhunen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki. Abstract We present a two-sphere dumbbell configuration of a rotating settlement at Earth-Moon L5. The...
by Emily Carney | Mar 1, 2020 | Space Colonization, Space Settlement, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney In this series’ previous article, Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill had just been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a rare bone marrow cancer. Once this diagnosis had been made, O’Neill dove into tackling the disease with his...
