http://www.nss.org/missions/ Commentary from National Space Society leaders and members on ongoing space missions en-us 2011-07-28T01:12:23-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2011/07/nss_member_refl.html I asked some of the NSS Book Review Committee members to send me their thoughts about the end of the Shuttle Program. One of the reviewers, Susan Raizer, went to see the launch, and sent in this report. I was... STS-115 m_dyson 2011-07-28T01:12:23-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2011/07/welcome_sts135.html JSC Special: Celebrate the STS-135 Crew's Homecoming Friday, July 22! If you missed the launch, you don't have to miss the crew! You're invited to Ellington Field Hangar 990 on Friday, July 22, at 4 p.m. to honor Commander Chris... STS-115 m_dyson 2011-07-15T15:28:57-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2011/07/the_last_naut.html As the historic final Space Shuttle flight continues, I asked some of my fellow NSS members to send me their thoughts about what it meant to them. NSS Director Jeffrey Liss offered his short story which was originally published in... STS-115 m_dyson 2011-07-10T13:18:07-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2011/06/welcome_home_st.html I am fortunate to live just down the road from Ellington, the airport where NASA houses the T-38s and the C-9 “vomit comets.” Hangar 990 is also the place where the hometown crowd gathers to welcome home astronauts returning from... STS-115 m_dyson 2011-06-03T18:04:56-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2011/05/the_value_of_la.html STS-134, the next to the last Space Shuttle flight, is poised for liftoff at 7:56 a.m. Houston time on Monday, May 16. If all goes well, recovering Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford and half a million other people will watch Endeavour take... STS-115 m_dyson 2011-05-16T01:01:30-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2011/03/nss_mission_blo_1.html NSS Mission Blog back online... Return to Flight lajoie 2011-03-15T01:52:29-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2011/02/following_disco.html Space Shuttle Discovery is on schedule to launch Thursday at 4:50 PM EST. Besides being the last flight of this orbiter, what do you need to know about this flight? The Crew The STS-133 crew members are Commander Steven Lindsey,... STS-115 m_dyson 2011-02-23T01:17:22-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2011/01/shuttle_launch_1.html If you're planning to go see one of last launches of the Space Shuttle, you'll need to move to Florida or keep your schedule flexible this spring. The last flight of Discovery, STS-133, originally planned for November, has now been... STS-115 m_dyson 2011-01-07T23:49:08-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2010/11/sts133_postoned.html Cracks found in the external tank of Discovery have caused a further launch delay of STS-133 to Feb 3, 2011 with a night launch at 1:30 a.m. This pushes STS-134 to April 1. Though the Authorization Act approved adding one... STS-115 m_dyson 2010-11-05T13:14:18-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2010/11/sts133_postpone.html Persistent hydrogen leaks in the Space Shuttle Discovery have caused the last planned launch of this orbiter to be postponed until November 30, 2010. Updates/Comments will be posted via the NSS Twitter account and discussed on the NSS Facebook page.... STS-115 m_dyson 2010-11-05T13:14:18-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2010/10/shuttle_discove.html The last planned flight of Space Shuttle Discovery is on schedule for launch Monday, Nov. 1, 2010 at 4:40 PM EDT. The crew of six will deliver and install the final U.S. pressurized module to the ISS, as well as... STS-115 m_dyson 2010-10-28T16:42:23-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2010/07/last_shuttle_fl.html The last space shuttle flights have been rescheduled. If you are one of the thousands of space fans planning to view one of these final flights, take note! STS-133 has been postponed from September 16 to November 1, 2010 with... STS-115 m_dyson 2010-07-01T17:15:25-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2010/05/sts132_launch_c.html Tens of thousands of space enthusiasts converged on Kennedy Space Center on Friday, May 14, 2010, to witness the final launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis. I was fortunate to be among the crowd. As I waited in my rental car... STS-115 m_dyson 2010-05-15T11:39:45-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2010/05/witnessesa_walt.html Chorus: “Twelve thousand, half million, million and more Picnicking out on the warm water shore. Nobody notes that we’re always at hand To watch all the spaceships that take off and land.” So says the song by Leslie Fish... STS-115 m_dyson 2010-05-13T14:19:21-05:00 http://www.nss.org/missions/archives/2010/04/the_russian_pre.html Every April 12 is a space anniversary, of the first human flight into space in 1961, and also of the first Space Shuttle launch 20 years later. This year, Russian President Dmitry Mededev called the space station crew to mark... STS-115 m_dyson 2010-04-13T00:10:15-05:00