by Emily Carney | Nov 24, 2019 | Apollo, Space, This Space Available
This summer, Quest magazine – the premier spaceflight history magazine – published an issue filled with “What Ifs” by prominent space history authors, each proposing a world where something – from seemingly infinitesimal changes to large diversions – changed the...
by National Space Society | Aug 18, 2019 | Space, Space Policy, Space Solar Power
From Dale Skran, Chair of the NSS Executive Committee: NSS VP of Space Development Greg Autry has an essay on the American Energy Society website. The link is here: https://www.energysociety.org/space-research-can-save-the-planet.html This article provides a great...
by National Space Society | Jul 25, 2019 | National Space Society, Space
The purpose of this just-released NSS Position Paper is to clarify and explain current and potential benefits of space-based capabilities for life on Earth from environmental, social, and economic perspectives, including: A) Space activities having a positive impact...
by National Space Society | Apr 30, 2019 | Commercial Space, Space
Opinion by Robert Bunn All of a sudden, space news is everywhere―spanning a variety of sub-topics. This past month, we saw China put a versatile robotic lander on the far side of the Moon, Space-X launch another set of satellites for Iridium, then cut 10 percent of...
by National Space Society | Oct 6, 2015 | International Space Station, Space, Space Tourism
By Gary Barnhard & Uma Shri Verma Being in space and looking down at the Earth, astronauts are hit with an astounding reality: our planet is a tiny, fragile ball of life, “hanging in the void,” shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere. This...
by National Space Society | Dec 16, 2013 | Space, Space Solar Power, Technology
BYU engineers have teamed up with a world-renowned origami expert to solve one of space exploration’s greatest (and most ironic) problems: lack of space. Working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a team of mechanical engineering students and faculty have designed...
by National Space Society | Dec 13, 2013 | Astronomy, Space
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor above the frigid south polar region of Jupiter’s moon Europa, providing the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off the moon’s surface. Previous scientific findings from other sources...
by David Brandt-Erichsen | Dec 10, 2012 | Space, Space Science
This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get...
