Mar 19, 2023 | Commercial Space, Meetings and Events, Space Economics, Space News
The planned 2030 termination of ISS (International Space Station) operations and the establishment of the NASA Commercial LEO (Low Earth Orbit) Destinations program to support one or more commercial space stations to succeed ISS is a singular opportunity for a giant...
Mar 19, 2023 | Meetings and Events, Space News, Speakers Bureau
Image: Science fiction author David Brin speaking at the April 2022 meeting of the Chicago Society for Space Studies For Chicago Society for Space Studies (CSSS), the year 2022 featured a number of successes. One of these successes was being the recipient of the...
Oct 17, 2022 | Space News, Space Policy
On August 1 2022 Chicago Society for Space Studies (CSSS) President Jim Plaxco met with Chris Dargis, Republican congressional candidate for the IL 8th congressional district. The purpose of the meeting was to inform and review with candidate Dargis the four 2022...
Oct 16, 2022 | Meetings and Events, Space News
The December 2022 free public meeting of Chicago Society for Space Studies (CSSS) will feature CSSS Vice President Larry Boyle giving his 2022 Space Year in Review presentation. This has been a decades-long tradition for CSSS and had consisted of, until COVID, both...
Oct 16, 2022 | Commercial Space, Mars Settlement, Space Economics, Space Tourism
(This document was created in 2020 for reference use as a part of an entry in the Mars Society’s Mars City State Design Competition.) In addressing the question of the size and value of an Earth → Mars tourism industry for the Mars City State Design Competition,...
