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,...
Oct 5, 2022 | Meetings and Events, Space Conferences, Space News
Chicago Society for Space Studies (CSSS) is proud to be a sponsor of SpaceVision – the annual conference of the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS). This year’s SpaceVision is being held at Ida Noyes Hall at the University of...
Jun 28, 2022 | Meetings and Events, Space News
The July CSSS meeting will feature CSSS Vice President Larry Boyle giving his presentation James Webb Space Telescope: First Science Images. The James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Telescope, has begun to return science data. The first press...
