Aug 9, 2026 | Meetings and Events, Space News, Speakers Bureau
The Sunday August 23, 2026 meeting of Chicago Society for Space Studies features a trio of short presentations addressing space elevators, nuclear fusion propulsion, and the CSSS space station design cost web app. Each of our three presenations will be 20 minutes in...
Jul 4, 2026 | Space Medicine
By Jessica D’Urbano Image Credit: Pioneers of the Cosmos by Adrianna Allen, Grand Prize Winner of the National Space Society’s 2016 Space Settlement Student Art Contest Space settlement is often framed as a problem of rockets, habitats, and resource extraction....
Jun 27, 2026 | Commercial Space, Space Tourism
By Michael N. Daily, APR. Image Source: OpenAI ChatGPT(2026) For generations, humanity looked toward the stars and imagined what it would be like to leave Earth behind, if only for a brief moment. Space travel existed primarily in the realm of government astronauts,...
Jun 26, 2026 | Commercial Space, Lunar Bases, Mars Missions, Space Development, Space Settlement
By William Halal. First published as “The Coming Space Age: Forecasts from the TechCast Project,” in Angus Hooke (ed), Technological Breakthroughs and Future Business Opportunities in Education, Health, and Outer Space (IGI Global, 2021). [The volatile nature of...
Jun 20, 2026 | Cislunar Space, Lunar Economy, Space Development, Space Economics
By George Pullen The Problem with Destination Thinking The Apollo program treated the Moon as a finish line. Get there, plant the flag, come home. That paradigm served its political purpose, but it is structurally incapable of producing sustainable economic activity....
