Journey to Alfahsfere
by Mike Combs , Copyright © 1996 There is another world which lies alongside our own. I know because I have journeyed there. I am Rahbert, of the Caddlemon tribe. We are one of about twenty tribes in the world (but now that I know there is more than one world, I must...
Averting Armageddon with ROI
Figure: A mass driver asteroid tug 2008 saw the centennial of the Tunguska event, which prompted us once again to consider: When will the next major asteroid strike occur? And is there anything we could do about it? Tunguska of that era was a sparsely-inhabited...
Improbable Events
by Mike Combs, Copyright © 2006 I was eating lunch in my favorite restaurant when the word came that it was my responsibility to pluck a tumbling animal out of the sky. "Void Walkers" is easily the most popular restaurant here in Bernal Alpha (yep, that's right; I...
Space Settlement Computer Animations
Space Settlement Computer Animations This computer animation by Eric Bruneton is actually intended to depict the Rama object from the Arthur C. Clarke sf novel "Rendezvous with Rama", but I think it also doubles nicely as an illustration of what the inside of a...
Space Settlement and Dumb Wannabe Colonists
Subject: Dumb Wannabe Colonists From: GroundHog <Standing@Sea.Level> Date: 1997/02/13 Message-Id: <33034984.4413@Sea.Level> Newsgroups: sci.space.policy Lots of crock on this newsgroups from wannabe space colonists about how mankind in general, and...
Space Settlement and The Case For Space
Mike Combs, Copyright © 1999 This article also appeared in the Fall 1999 issue of Space Front, a publication of the Space Frontier Foundation. Sunlight Available 24x7 Convenient Access to Zero Gravity All Gravitational Options Available Living at the Top of a Well No...
Miranda and the Space Pirates
Or How Haven Rock Was Saved by Mike Combs, Copyright © 1997 To the real Miranda. May your life be as rich in adventure as your fictional counterpart. But most importantly, may your future be as unbounded in opportunity as hers. November 15th, 2096: Daddy's as mad as I...
Economy and Exploration: Why Deep Space is Vital to Advancing U.S. Leadership Speaker Forum
August 24, 2014; Updated Sept. 29, 2014. The Chicago Society for Space Studies (CSSS) is proud to be an official supporting organization for the Deep Space Alliance's Economy and Exploration: Why Deep Space is Vital to Advancing U.S. Leadership Speaker Forum to be...
CSSS 2013 Public Space Meetings
The Chicago Society for Space Studies sponsored the following free public events during 2013 as a part of our mission to promote the public’s understanding of space exploration.
Chicago Society for Space Studies Member Lynne Zielinski Receives National Space Educator Award
Lynne F. Zielinski, National Space Society (NSS) officer and director has been selected by the National Space Club as the 2013 recipient of the National Space Educator Award.