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NSS REACHES INITIAL GOAL – NEXT STOP WASHINGTON I’m delighted to report that yesterday our Kickstarter campaign reached our initial goal of $35,000! With your support – 500 backers – we’ve come a long way. People from over 20 nations have... (Read More)

Greetings friends and welcome back to another Kickstarter Conversation! Today I am very pleased to be joined by three key members of the National Space Society’s team who are here to discuss their Kickstarter project Our future in Space. Lets go down the list, first off we have Paul Damphousse, Executive Director of the National Space Society. PD: Welcome to the National Space Society and our first Kickstarter campaign! (Read More)

Inside an old storage warehouse in an abandoned shipyard in Copenhagen, Kristian von Bengston and Peter Madsen have been building a one-man rocket ship they intend to send on a 15-minute, parabolic trip to the edge of space and back. Von Bengston and Madsen’s non-profit, private space agency is called Copenhagen Suborbitals, and is probably the most extreme do-it-yourself project in the world. Von Bengston is an architect and former NASA contractor. Madsen is an engineer who founded a DIY collective that built three submarines as a hobby. (Read More)

As NASA faces more budget cuts from the fiscal cliff deal, the National Space Society (NSS) wants to make it clear that NASA is not dying, and the future of space exploration is still strong. The NSS has started a Kickstarter campaign to create a cutting-edge film to educate the public. I had the opportunity to interview Kenneth Murphy, who is the president of the North Texas chapter of the NSS, and Paul Damphousse, who is the executive director of the NSS, about the new project. (Read More)

Firstly, thank you everyone for your participation and enthusiasm in supporting the National Space Society’s Kickstarter effort. We think this educational and inspiration movie series is really important: 1) Telling the story of ‘why space... (Read More)

Hello Backers: I’m pleased to report that the National Space Society Kickstarter project is off to a roaring start!We launched early yesterday morning and the entire day was a hurricane of emails and phone calls.By the end of the day we had been... (Read More)

The National Space Society (NSS) has just launched a campaign on the popular Kickstarter internet platform for the creation of a cutting-edge film about the ways in which all of humanity benefits from the expansion of space exploration and development. This ground-breaking education initiative, entitled "Our Future in Space" is designed to bring NSS's vision of human beings living and working in space to a broader audience. (Read More)