Ad Astra 2014 Winter (Volume 26 Number 4)
Cover image: Artist’s portrayal of the IC 10 X-1 system; a black hole lies at the upper left and its companion star is on the right. © Aurore Simonnet/Sonoma State University/NASA.
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A GRAVITATIONAL TANDEM STARSHIP:
THE FUTURE OF INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL
By Alexander Kazykin - 20
MAKING HIS OWN PATH: RICHARD GARRIOTT’S
ENTREPRENEURIAL SPACE ODYSSEY
By Clifford R. McMurray - 24
COMING HOME MAY BE THE HARDEST PART
The perils of re-entry
By Paul Contursi - 28
WRAPPED IN DARKNESS AND SILENCE
Legal aspects of commercial spaceflight
By Lance Frazer - 32
THE AFFORDABLE MISSION TO MARS
By Humboldt C. Mandell, Jr. - 36
THE EASIEST PATH: MICHAEL GRIFFIN’S
STRATEGIC VISION FOR A SPACEFARING CIVILIZATION
By Clifford R. McMurray - 40
SOFIA: THE TEACHER EXPERIENCE
By Lynne F. Zielinski - 44
THE AGE OF IN-SPACE MANUFACTURING
By Michael P. Snyder - 46
WEEKEND WORKSHOP REPORT:
LOW-COST STRATEGIES FOR LUNAR SETTLEMENT
By Bruce Pittman
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NSS ANNOUNCEMENTS
Congratulations NSS North Texas
By Ken Ruffin - 9
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
By Pat Silver - 10
NSS CORRESPONDENCE
National Space Society Encourages Virgin Galactic to Press On - 47
LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIR
The Paradigm Is Changing
By Mark Hopkins
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BOOKS
Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program, by David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek
Reviewed by Jim Plaxco
To Orbit and Back Again: How the Space Shuttle Flew in Space, by David Sivolella
Reviewed by Marianne Dyson - 50
CHAPTER LISTINGS - 55
SIGNING OFF
Supernova
Ad Astra 2014 Winter (Volume 26 Number 4)
Cover image: Artist’s portrayal of the IC 10 X-1 system; a black hole lies at the upper left and its companion star is on the right. © Aurore Simonnet/Sonoma State University/NASA.
- 14
A GRAVITATIONAL TANDEM STARSHIP:
THE FUTURE OF INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL
By Alexander Kazykin - 20
MAKING HIS OWN PATH: RICHARD GARRIOTT’S
ENTREPRENEURIAL SPACE ODYSSEY
By Clifford R. McMurray - 24
COMING HOME MAY BE THE HARDEST PART
The perils of re-entry
By Paul Contursi - 28
WRAPPED IN DARKNESS AND SILENCE
Legal aspects of commercial spaceflight
By Lance Frazer - 32
THE AFFORDABLE MISSION TO MARS
By Humboldt C. Mandell, Jr. - 36
THE EASIEST PATH: MICHAEL GRIFFIN’S
STRATEGIC VISION FOR A SPACEFARING CIVILIZATION
By Clifford R. McMurray - 40
SOFIA: THE TEACHER EXPERIENCE
By Lynne F. Zielinski - 44
THE AGE OF IN-SPACE MANUFACTURING
By Michael P. Snyder - 46
WEEKEND WORKSHOP REPORT:
LOW-COST STRATEGIES FOR LUNAR SETTLEMENT
By Bruce Pittman
- 8
NSS ANNOUNCEMENTS
Congratulations NSS North Texas
By Ken Ruffin - 9
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
By Pat Silver - 10
NSS CORRESPONDENCE
National Space Society Encourages Virgin Galactic to Press On - 47
LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIR
The Paradigm Is Changing
By Mark Hopkins
- 48
BOOKS
Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program, by David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek
Reviewed by Jim Plaxco
To Orbit and Back Again: How the Space Shuttle Flew in Space, by David Sivolella
Reviewed by Marianne Dyson - 50
CHAPTER LISTINGS - 55
SIGNING OFF
Supernova
