Ad Astra The magazine of the National Space Society Back Issues   See also L5 News back issues

2009

• Winter (Volume 21 Number 4)
• Fall (Volume 21 Number 3)
  • A look at the Augustine Comission Report [PDF 0.2 MB]
• Summer (Volume 21 Number 2)
• Spring (Volume 21 Number 1)
  • Complete issue available for download

2008

• Winter (Volume 20 Number 4)
  • Special Report: The Threat of Impact [PDF 1.7 MB]
• Fall (Volume 20 Number 3)
  • Commercial Space Transportation: A Modern Day Everest
• Summer (Volume 20 Number 2)
  • Special Report: Back to the Moon [PDF 4.3 MB]
  • A conversation with NSS Space Elevator Team leader Bert Murray [PDF 0.3 MB]
• Spring (Volume 20 Number 1)
  • Special Report on Space-Based Solar Power [PDF 1.5 MB]

2007

• Winter (Volume 19 Number 4)
  • NASA's Dawn Mission: Opening Up Asteroids to Space Settlement?
• Fall (Volume 19 Number 3)
  • Fair Warning, Deadly Response: The Asteroid Threat
• Summer (Volume 19 Number 2)
  • Wanted: Someone to Watch Over Us
• Spring (Volume 19 Number 1)
  • Moon Base: The Next Step in the Exploration of the Solar System
  • Zero G, Zero Tax: Enabling Private Space Enterprise Through Tax Incentives
• See also Ad Astra Online, with web-exclusive content for 2007.

2006

• Winter (Volume 18 Number 4)
  • Belgian Student Wins NSS-NASA Space Settlement Design Contest
• Fall (Volume 18 Number 3)
  • Reaching the "Tipping Point" for Space Tourism
• Summer (Volume 18 Number 2)
  • Mining Near-Earth Asteroids
• Spring (Volume 18 Number 1)
  • Making Sun Shades from Moon Dust: Solution for Climate Change

2005

• Winter (Volume 17 Number 4)
  • Luna Palooza! NASA's Blueprint for Returning to the Moon
• Fall (Volume 17 Number 3)
  • One Nation, Over Regulated: Is ITAR Stalling the New Space Race?
• Summer (Volume 17 Number 2)
  • Nuclear Power: Now More Than Ever, Or Never?
• Spring (Volume 17 Number 1)
  • Special Report on China's Space Program

2004

• "Winter 2005" (Volume 16 Number 4)
  • Inside the Mars Rover Missions
• July-August-September (Volume 16 Number 3)
  • The U. S. Blueprint for Space Exploration: The Aldridge Commission Report
• April-May-June (Volume 16 Number 2)
  • Future Earth Prosperity Will Depend on Resources in Space
• January-February-March (Volume 16 Number 1)
  • The Case for Solar Power from Space

2003

• September-October-November (Volume 15 Number 4)
  • Burt Rutan's Personal Space [PDF]
• June-July-August (Volume 15 Number 3)
  • The 2002 NSS Chapter Awards [PDF]
• March-April-May (Volume 15 Number 2)
  • The Columbia Investigation [PDF]
• January-February (Volume 15 Number 1)
  • Space Elevator: A 21st century solution for space transportation [PDF]

2002

• November-December (Volume 14 Number 6)
  • The New International Space University Campus in Strasbourg
• September-October (Volume 14 Number 5)
  • Diversity and Today's NASA [PDF]
  • The Space Settlement Initiative
• July-August (Volume 14 Number 4)
  • The Future of Space Transportation [PDF]
• May-June (Volume 14 Number 3)
  • Mars on Earth [PDF]
• March-April (Volume 14 Number 2)
  • The Future of Rocket Science [PDF]
• January-February (Volume 14 Number 1)
  • Life in Extreme Environments

2001

• November-December (Volume 13 Number 6)
  • Spacesuits, Firefighters, and Helping Heroes
  • When Terrorists Threatened Apollo [PDF]
• September-October (Volume 13 Number 5)
  • Controlled Environment Systems Research at the University of Guelph [PDF]
• July-August (Volume 13 Number 4)
  • International Space Cooperation: Economy as a Main Driver [PDF]
• May-June (Volume 13 Number 3)
  • Youth for Space in Turkey
• March-April (Volume 13 Number 2)
  • The Spaceship that Came in From the Cold War: The Untold Story of the DC-X
• January-February (Volume 13 Number 1)
  • NSS Envisioned Milestones on the Roadmap to Human Settlement of Space
  • Technological Barriers to Space Settlement
  • Political Barriers to Human Settlement of Space
  • Social Barriers to Human Settlement of Space
  • Economic Barriers to Space Settlement

Some Ad Astra articles from the 1990s

• The Promise of Mars, by Robert Zubrin (May-June 1996)
• The Case for Colonizing Mars, by Robert Zubrin (July-August 1996)
• The Significance of the Martian Frontier, by Robert Zubrin (September-October, 1994)
• The National Space Institute (November-December 1994)
• The L-5 Society (November-December 1994)