New Issue of Space Lifestyle Magazine Now Available

By Nancy Atkinson - February 26, 2009 at 6:38 AM UTC | Site News
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Have you heard about

Space Lifestyle Magazine

? It's a digital magazine, with a full color layout just like a print magazine, but its all online. And the winter issue of

Space Lifestyle Magazine

is now online and available for free. SLM has feature articles about all aspects of space -- NewSpace, NASA, military, science and astronomy -- but mostly it's about the people that make the space sector tick.

In the latest issue, you'll find a bang-up article written by UT's Ian O'Neill about SpaceX. Ian actually toured the SpaceX facility and took some great pictures and wrote a very comprehensive article about SpaceX's recent successful launch to orbit. Other features include an interesting overview about the work being done to create magnetic shielding for spacecraft that will help repel radiation.

There's also a feature story about South Korea's Yecheon Astro Space Center selecting XCOR Aerospace services - specifically their Lynx Mark II suborbital vehicle - as its preferred supplier of suborbital space launch services.

There's also a comprehensive rundown of the X PRIZE Lunar Lander Challenge competition last fall, and much more including book reviews (

Death From the Sky

by Phil Plait) and a special discount for the National Space Symposium to be held March 30-April 2 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. If you haven't already "subscribed" to SLM, please do so for the chance to win a Zero-G parabolic flight and other prizes. Enjoy!

Check out Space Lifestyle Magazine.

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com