Ad Astra 2012 Fall (Volume 24 Number 3)
Cover image courtesy SpaceX.
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ISDC 2012 Looking into the Promised Land
By Clifford R. McMurray - 16
MILESTONES TO SPACE SETTLEMENT: AN NSS ROADMAP
Introduction and Outline of the complete online Roadmap - 20
THE TYRANNY OF THE ROCKET EQUATION
By Atronaut Don Pettit (written aboard the International Space Station) - 26
DRAGON SOARS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
By Douglas Messier - 30
IS A MOON BASE IN OUR FUTURE?
By Gordon Woodcock - 34
X-37B: THE AIR FORCE’S NEW SPACE PLANE
By David Kane - 38
NSS RECOGNIZES STUDENT SPACE SETTLEMENT DESIGN WINNERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
By Lynne F. Zielinski - 42
2012 NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY AWARDS
Honorees at the 2012 NSS International Space Development Conference
By John K. Strickland - 44
KSI AND NSS BRING SPACE TO THE CAROLINA COAST
By Walt Putnam
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LETTER FROM HEADQUARTERS
Onward, Upward…On the Shoulders of Giants
By Paul Damphousse - 9
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
By Pat Silver - 40
2012 NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY AWARDS CEREMONY - 41
HERITAGE PANEL REFLECTS ON THE PAST AND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
By Ariel I. Rayman - 46
LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
We Are Winning!
By Mark Hopkins - 47
NSS CORRESPONDENCE
Space Experience Economy Seminars
By John Spencer
- 48
BOOKS
Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet’s Twin, by Michael D. Lemonick
Reviewed by Charlene Brusso
At Home In Space: The Late Seventies into the Eighties, by Ben Evans
Reviewed by Stephen Adamczyk - 50
CHAPTER LISTINGS - 55
SIGNING OFF
Psychedelic space
Ad Astra 2012 Fall (Volume 24 Number 3)
Cover image courtesy SpaceX.
- 12
ISDC 2012 Looking into the Promised Land
By Clifford R. McMurray - 16
MILESTONES TO SPACE SETTLEMENT: AN NSS ROADMAP
Introduction and Outline of the complete online Roadmap - 20
THE TYRANNY OF THE ROCKET EQUATION
By Atronaut Don Pettit (written aboard the International Space Station) - 26
DRAGON SOARS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
By Douglas Messier - 30
IS A MOON BASE IN OUR FUTURE?
By Gordon Woodcock - 34
X-37B: THE AIR FORCE’S NEW SPACE PLANE
By David Kane - 38
NSS RECOGNIZES STUDENT SPACE SETTLEMENT DESIGN WINNERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
By Lynne F. Zielinski - 42
2012 NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY AWARDS
Honorees at the 2012 NSS International Space Development Conference
By John K. Strickland - 44
KSI AND NSS BRING SPACE TO THE CAROLINA COAST
By Walt Putnam
- 8
LETTER FROM HEADQUARTERS
Onward, Upward…On the Shoulders of Giants
By Paul Damphousse - 9
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
By Pat Silver - 40
2012 NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY AWARDS CEREMONY - 41
HERITAGE PANEL REFLECTS ON THE PAST AND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
By Ariel I. Rayman - 46
LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
We Are Winning!
By Mark Hopkins - 47
NSS CORRESPONDENCE
Space Experience Economy Seminars
By John Spencer
- 48
BOOKS
Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet’s Twin, by Michael D. Lemonick
Reviewed by Charlene Brusso
At Home In Space: The Late Seventies into the Eighties, by Ben Evans
Reviewed by Stephen Adamczyk - 50
CHAPTER LISTINGS - 55
SIGNING OFF
Psychedelic space
