Ad Astra 2012 Winter (Volume 24 Number 4)
Cover image courtesy NASA.
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REMEMBERING NEIL ARMSTRONG
By Clifford R. McMurray - 18
NEAs:
The Solar System’s Low-Hanging Fruit
By Marianne J. Dyson - 22
GOING DEEP:
Excalibur Almaz and Commercial Flights beyond Earth Orbit
By Clifford R. McMurray - 26
COSMIC DAWN:
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
By Erin Leidy - 30
THE SHUTTLES FIND NEW HOMES
By Regina Pickett Garson - 32
50 YEARS LATER:
How Mariner 2 Broke NASA’s Losing Streak
By Nicholas Gerbis - 36
COLLABORATING FOR OUR FUTURE IN SPACE:
International Space Development Conference 2013, La Jolla, California
By Dave Dressler, 2013 ISDC Conference Chair - 40
ORIGINS OF THE NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY
Interviews with the Founders of the National Space Institute
By Frederick I. Ordway, III - 44
THE STORY OF PLANETARY RESOURCES
Humanity’s Greatest Adventure in the 21st Century
By Eric Anderson - 46
THE MERGER:
Creation of the National Space Society
By Mark M. Hopkins
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LETTER FROM HEADQUARTERS
A Summer of Achievements and Our Tribute to a Hero
By Paul Damphousse - 11
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
By Pat Silver - 12
NSS ANNOUNCEMENTS
NSS Remembers Neil A. Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, 1930-2012
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BOOKS
Colonizing Mars: The Human Mission to the Red Planet, by Robert Zubrin, Harrison Schmitt, Edgar Mitchell, et. al.
Reviewed by Bart Leahy
2312, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Reviewed by Marianne Dyson - 50
CHAPTER LISTINGS - 55
SIGNING OFF
Orion Spacecraft Water Impact Testing
Ad Astra 2012 Winter (Volume 24 Number 4)
Cover image courtesy NASA.
- 14
REMEMBERING NEIL ARMSTRONG
By Clifford R. McMurray - 18
NEAs:
The Solar System’s Low-Hanging Fruit
By Marianne J. Dyson - 22
GOING DEEP:
Excalibur Almaz and Commercial Flights beyond Earth Orbit
By Clifford R. McMurray - 26
COSMIC DAWN:
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
By Erin Leidy - 30
THE SHUTTLES FIND NEW HOMES
By Regina Pickett Garson - 32
50 YEARS LATER:
How Mariner 2 Broke NASA’s Losing Streak
By Nicholas Gerbis - 36
COLLABORATING FOR OUR FUTURE IN SPACE:
International Space Development Conference 2013, La Jolla, California
By Dave Dressler, 2013 ISDC Conference Chair - 40
ORIGINS OF THE NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY
Interviews with the Founders of the National Space Institute
By Frederick I. Ordway, III - 44
THE STORY OF PLANETARY RESOURCES
Humanity’s Greatest Adventure in the 21st Century
By Eric Anderson - 46
THE MERGER:
Creation of the National Space Society
By Mark M. Hopkins
- 8
LETTER FROM HEADQUARTERS
A Summer of Achievements and Our Tribute to a Hero
By Paul Damphousse - 11
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
By Pat Silver - 12
NSS ANNOUNCEMENTS
NSS Remembers Neil A. Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, 1930-2012
- 48
BOOKS
Colonizing Mars: The Human Mission to the Red Planet, by Robert Zubrin, Harrison Schmitt, Edgar Mitchell, et. al.
Reviewed by Bart Leahy
2312, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Reviewed by Marianne Dyson - 50
CHAPTER LISTINGS - 55
SIGNING OFF
Orion Spacecraft Water Impact Testing