NSS General Policy

• NSS Vision: "People living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth." - PDF version
• NSS Mission Statement: "To promote social, economic, technological, and political change, to advance the day when humans will live and work in space."
• Full Statement of Philosophy - PDF version

NSS "Road map to Space"

• Roadmap to the Stars.
• Milestones - PDF version
• Complete list of Barriers and Milestones

Policy Platforms

• "NSS Policy Agenda (Policy Committee, June 2002, published in Ad Astra November 2002) - PDF version
• "NSS's Policy Platform" (February 1995) - PDF version
• The Next Steps for Human Space Exploration (Position Paper, October 1, 2003) - PDF version

Settling Space

• "Settling Space" Resource Packet (February 2001) - PDF version
• "The Importance of Space Settlement to Our Society and to Humanity" (Policy Committee, January 24, 2001) - PDF version
• "NSS Decries "Stop-go" Approach of NASA to Human Exploration Projects Beyond Low-Earth-Orbit" (Release, January 26, 1998) - PDF version

The International Space Station

• "The International Space Station" (Statement, March 2001) - PDF version
• "NSS Lauds NASA ISS Crew and Visitor Criteria" (Statement, February 8, 2002) PDF version
• "In Opposition to Cancellation of the International Space Station" (Release, July 15, 1998) PDF version
• "Commercial Use of the International Space Station" (Position Paper, March 1998) - PDF version

Moon

• "Return to the Moon: Why & How" (Policy Committee, January 29, 2001) - PDF version.

Mars

• "NSS Hails Reported Discoverty of Water on Mars" (NSS Press Release, May 28, 2002) - PDF version.
• "Humans to Mars: Why & How" (Policy Committee, February 4, 2001) - PDF version.
• "NASA's Mars Exploration Plan" (NSS Press Release November 20, 2000) - PDF version
• "Mars 2010" (NSS Executive Committee Resolution, November 2000) - December 1998 PDF
• "In Situ Resources" (Resolution, Executive Committee, March 1999) PDF version
• Mars Policy (Board Statement, September 1996) PDF version

Asteroids

• "Asteroid Resource Packet" (April 1998) - PDF version
• "Asteroids Backgrounder and Talking Points" (NSS Information Release, Fenruary 6, 1997) - PDF version

Nuclear power in Space

• "Cassini" (NSS Policy Committee, Position Statement, September 1997) - PDF version
• "Cassini Talking Points" (News Advisory memo from NSS HQ, September 15, 1997) - PDF version
• "Responding to Concerns That Might Be Raised / NUCLEAR RTGs & CASSINI MISSION TO SATURN / What you Should Know and What You Can Do" -- Tools for Cassini Response ("Inside NSS," September 1997) - PDF version
• "Cassini" (Statement by Executive Director and NSS President Charlie Walker, September 8, 1997) - PDF version

Miscellaneous

• Space Tourism (October, 2004) - PDF version
• NSS Members Energized By World's First Private Spaceflight (June, 2004) - PDF version
• NSS Congratulates China on Its First Human Space Mission (Release, October 14, 2003) - PDF version
• The Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report (Release, August 26, 2003) - PDF version
• Regulation of Model Rocketry (Letter to U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, June 11, 2003) - PDF version
• "U.S. Space Transportation Policy" (February 11, 2003) - PDF version
• "Satellite regulation" (Memo from NSS Executive Director to members of Policy Committee, August 7, 2001) - PDF version
• "Space Tourism" (Statement, June 20, 2001) - PDF version
• "1% for the Future" (Call for NSS chapter action, April 2000) - PDF version
• "Space Solar Power" (Policy Committee memo from Lawrence Roberts, Chair, June 10, 1999) - PDF version
• "Space Solar Power" (Spacecause Legislative Alert, June 12, 1998) - PDF version
• "Transhab" (NSS Policy Release, June 10, 1999) - PDF version
• "Mir/Cargo Craft Collision" (Executive Director Statement, June 30, 1997) - PDF version
• "Future-X: Modernizing Space Transportation" (Backgrounder, June 1998)
• "X-33 Demonstrator" (Backgrounder, June 1998)
• NASA: Soaring to the Next Century? - Congressional testimony by APS President David Brandt. (February, 1997)

"Why Space?"

• "Why Explore Space" (Position Paper by Brian Chase, NSS Executive Director (February 13, 2003) - PDF version
• "Why We Do -- and Must -- Go Into Space" (Essay by Jeffrey G. Liss, NSS Senior Vice President, February 8, 2003) - PDF version
• "Why Send Humans to Space? Columbia Aftermath" (Essay by Gregory H. Allison, NSS Executive Vice President, February 16, 2003) - PDF version
• "Why Send People Instead of Just Robots into Space?" (Essay by Richard Godwin, NSS Director. February 2003) - PDF version
• Common Sense and Outer Space (Essay by then NSS President Charles Walker, 1993).
• Why We Explore Space (Essay published in Final Frontier by NSS President Charles Walker, 1992).

Obsolete, duplicative, superseded, or otherwise lost:

• "Cassini Mission: Event Calendar and Reactions" (Activist Toolkit: September 12, 1997)
• "Mars Pathfinder" (Talking Points, July 3, 1997)
• "Human Exploration of Mars." (1999 or earlier)
• "Mars and Phobos."(1999 or older)
• "The Space Station Program and Space Development" (1999 or earlier)
• "Space Station: A Stepping Stone for Science and Exploration" (1999 or earlier)
• "A Half Dozen Reasons for Supporting Space Development" (1999 or earlier)
• "Nonterrestrial Materials: A Critical Resource" (1999 or earlier)
• "Outer Space and the Global Environment" (1999 or earlier)
• "Basic Research Priorities in Space" (1999 or earlier)
• "Commercial Space Act of 1997" (1999 or earlier)
• "Earth's Energy Future: Nuclear and Satellite Solar Power" (1999 or earlier)
• Space and Molecular Nanotechnology (1995).
• "The National Aerospace Plane and the Highway to Space" (1999 or earlier)
• Cassini/Huygens Mission Backgrounder (September 1997).

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