NSS Shirts, Hats, ETC. available NOW !!!

Here is the link you can visit to get your NSS clothing and merchandise:

www.cafepress.com/spacetourism

NSS Chapter Project and Events Committees

Information needed  from each NSS Chapter in order to put YOUR Chapter Event / Project information on an NSS Chapter Project and Events web page:

Chapter Name Chapter Contact (full name, e-mail) Project/Event Title Project/Event Description Project/Event weblink PR received for project

 

Please indicate if this is a “Project” or an “Event” as well s the date(s) these take place. 

READING SPACE: NSS Reviews and Recommended Reading

READING SPACE:  NSS Reviews and Recommended Reading

Whenever you purchase anything from Amazon.com, please use any of our links to enter their site. NSS will receive credit for anything you purchase in that session. You can also right-click the Amazon logo to the right and save it as a bookmark or favorite. It helps NSS and doesn’t cost you a penny more!

NSS REVIEW: Non-Fiction Book of the Month (OCT) More Non-Fiction Books Title: Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir Author: Bryan Burrough Date: 1998		NSS REVIEW: Fiction Book of the Month (OCT) More Fiction Books Title: Hurricane Moon Author: Alexis Glynn Latner Date: July, 2007		NSS REVIEW: Children’s Book of the Month (OCT) More Children’s Books Title: Spacer and Rat Author: Margaret Bechard Date: 2005
The gripping story of seven American astronauts and their missions to the dangerously decaying Mir space station.		The hopes and dreams of humanity ride with ten thousand colonists frozen in a ship sent to settle an extra-solar planet.		Engaging story of two young people on a space colony in the asteroid belt; impressive job of creating a complete fictional world.
Read our review by Stephen Adamczyk		Read our review by Marianne Dyson		Read our review by Marianne Dyson

Books are selected for recommendation based on their connection to the NSS vision of people living and working in space. Reviews are provided by members of the NSS Space Books Committee and other individuals. Opinions expressed are those of the reviewers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Space Society. Contact Space Books Committee Chairman Marianne Dyson with comments or requests for book reviews. Note: NSS does not review self- or pod-published books.

Space Tourism

“The sheer beauty of it just brought tears to my eyes. If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion, they would have a completely different perspective. Because when you see it from that angle, you cannot think of your home or your country. All you can see is one Earth….” — Anousheh Ansari, Iranian-American space tourist who flew to the International Space Station in September 2006.

“It was amazing.  The zero-g part was wonderful.  I could have gone on and on – space here I come.”      — Stephen Hawking, renowned British astrophysicist who was able to leave his wheel chair and experience zero-gravity aboard a parabolic airplane flight on April 26, 2007. Hawking plans to fly on SpaceShipTwo when it offers suborbital space flights.

 

Space Tourism Leads to Space Settlement
NSS Position Paper on Space Tourism

LINKS & RESOURCES

Space Adventures
X-Prize Foundation
Space Access Society
Scaled Composites
Virgin Galactic
Zero-G Corporation

Anousheh Ansari – First Female Private Space Explorer
Space Future – Space Tourism
Wikipedia – Space Tourism
Space Tourism Society
Space Tourism – Multimedia Special Report (13 minutes)
NSS News Archive on Space Tourism
Review: The Space Tourist’s Handbook

NSS and Second Life: Information Needed Please

I am in the process of writing an article on Second Life and the NSS
and how it has improved the NSS’s identity and development within a
participating NSS Chapter and the NSS as a whole.

If there are any Chapters and/or their members utilizing Second Life,
I would very much like to hear from you.

If you can e-mail me back with the following information by July 31st,
by 5pm (MST) that would be great!

Chapter Name

When did you start using Second Life?

How did you hear about Second Life?

What are you using Second Life for?

Has it helped/hindered your Chapter’s development/projects?

Why is Second Life important to the NSS and its goals?

Do you think that this can be used as an education outreach tool?

Do you think this could help the NSS promote its goals in the next
Presidential election?

Please provide your Chapter’s/members’ land purchased, screen names
(optional), websites of interest and point of contact for your
Chapter’s/members’ Second Life reality for more information if needed.

Additional comments?

Please send pictures if available.

Thanks in advance !

Cheers,

Veronica Ann
Region 3 Director

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Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto
Arizona State University
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
Science Operation Center
Admin A-Wing, Room,A103
Tempe, AZ 85281-3603
Telephone: 480.727.9486(LROC SOC)
FAX:  480-965-8885
Email: Veronica.Zabala@asu.edu

Family Living Analysis on Mars Expedition (F.L.A.M.E.) and the NSS

02 August 2007

Folks,

As CDR of the Family Living Analysis on Mars Expedition Crew (F.L.A.M.E.), I would like to invite all to apply for our open Chief Engineer Crew Slot as well as for any Media entities.  I am willing to make an allowance for an extra Crew Member Slot to be opened for anyone seriously interested in learning the protocols necessary to live and work on Mars.

We are actively seeking a Chief Engineer for our rotation.  If you know anyone that is interested, please have them contact me at:   Veronica.Zabala@NSS.org

The Family Living Analysis on Mars Expedition Crew (F.L.A.M.E.) currently consists of the following:

Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto, Commander
Stacy Sklar, Executive Officer, Exopaleontologist
Chief Engineer, Crew Slot Open
Jared Szymanoski, Chief HSO, Educator
Angelina Amanda Zabala, Executive Officer in Training, EVA Technician
Madeline “Mad Dog” Marie Zabala, HSO in Training, Mission Specialist
Gino Vincenzo Zabala, Security Officer, Assistant Engineer
Media Personnel:  Currently Open

Preliminary documents which are needed are:

Resume

3 Letters of Reference

8 X 10 Picture

500 word essay on what your qualifications are, your interests in human and robotic space exploration and why (in your opinion) we should go to the Moon, Mars and Beyond

These documents can be e-mailed to me at:  Veronica.Zabala@NSS.org with the Subject Line entitled “Your Name_FLAME2008 Application”

For more information on F.L.A.M.E. and the Mars Desert REsearch Station please visit:  www.marssociety.org/MDRS

F.L.A.M.E.’s next rotation is March 1-16, 2008.

***We are also actively seeking any sponsorships and donations for our next mission.  If you know of any individuals and/or organizations to do so, please have them contact me.

Thank you in advance!  I do hope our NSS Chapter members will get involved in this great educational venture!

Ad Luna…Ad Martem…Ad Astra!

Cheers,

Veronica Ann

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Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto
Arizona State University
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
Science Operation Center
Admin A-Wing, Room,A103
Tempe, AZ 85281-3603
Telephone: 480.727.9486(LROC SOC)
FAX:  480-965-8885
Email: Veronica.Zabala@asu.edu

National Space Society Library

Welcome to the NSS Library

Space Shuttle Video Library Video highlights from every Shuttle mission, narrated by the astronauts. Each video is about 20 minutes long.

Space Station Library Reference Guide to the International Space Station

Space Solar Power Library Sun Power: The Global Solution for the Coming Energy Crisis – complete online book by Ralph Nansen Satellite Power System Concept Development and Evaluation Program – a large set of the extensive Department of Energy/NASA studies from 1978 to 1981 Laying the Foundation for Space Solar Power (National Research Council, 2001) … MORE

Space Settlement Library Colonies in Space – complete online book by T. A. Heppenheimer Space Settlements – A Design Study (NASA Special Publication 413) Space Resources and Space Settlements (NASA Special Publication 428) Space Colonies – CoEvolution Quarterly Book L5 News Archive … MORE

Lunar Bases and Settlement Library Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century Lunar Resources Utilization for Space Construction … MORE

Mars Library NASA Mars Reference Mission (Mars “Semi-Direct”) [PDF 2.3 MB] “Mars Direct” articles from Ad Astra Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning, 1950-2000 [PDF 2.4 MB] … MORE

Space Policy Library U. S. National Space Policy, 2006 NASA’s Exploration Systems Architecture Study (2005) Report of the President’s Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy, 2004 The Space Shuttle Decision, by T. A. Heppenheimer (1999) America at the Threshold – Report of the Synthesis Group on America’s Space Exploration Initiative, 1991 Pioneering the Space Frontier – Report of the National Commission on Space (1986) … MORE

Space Elevator Library Space Elevators – An Advanced Earth-Space Infrastructure for the New Millennium, 2000 The Space Elevator by Bradley C. Edwards (NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Study Phase 1 Final Report), 2000 The Space Elevator NIAC Phase 2 Final Report, 2003 … More info

What is your vision for space? Have your say!

We are running a survey to find out what is the youth visions for the next 50 years of space. The results will be presented by two Space Generation representatives at a planning workshop including prominent individuals such as Freeman Dyson, Elon Musk and Dr Harrison Schmitt. The workshop will be held in conjunction with a conference titled, “The Future of Space Exploration: Solutions to Earthly Problems?”, taking place on April 12-14 2007.

The input sought at this time are key events and timing that are thought to be important for space activities over the next 50 years. We hope to capture the input in a publication tentatively titled: “Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Next Generation’s 50-Year Vision for Space”.

To provide your input, please visit http://www.spacegeneration.org/survey/survey.php?id=4QG3M1AF

This survey is organised by SGAC, in partnership with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Boston University Center for Space Physics, and the Secure World Foundation.

Mars Analog Research Stations

FMARS	MDRS
Euro-MARS	MARS-OZ

ANY NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY MEMBER WHO WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN A LUNAR AND/OR MARTIAN SIMULATED MISSION PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Cheers,

Veronica Ann

The NSS of Phoenix

Today’s Science and Space from CNN

Updated: 1:12 p.m. EST (18:12 GMT), December 29, 2006

Ancient ice shelf breaks free

A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada’s Arctic, scientists said. The mass of ice broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island.

FULL STORY

• Map: Canada’s Arctic

• Satellite images of the ice shelf

SPACE EXPLORATION

SPACE.com: NASA considering human mission to asteroid

CLIMATE CHANGE

Drilling into the past to predict the future