In a Strange Land

At this time of a renewed Space Race with China, to get to the Moon's South Pole, we might want to look backward a bit. In the late 50s ...

I got an F in Thermodynamics, shortly before I flunked out of UVA's Aerospace Engineering program. So I leave matters such as cooling sa...

The race is on, with the Artemis 2 mission coming as soon at early next month. I'm hoping to see it and future endeavors work well, so ...

A few stories recently caught my eye about moving data centers away from where we live, far away, in fact.  China's government plans to ...

Location: Day-Dreaming about a 1985 Mars base image source: Encyclopedia Astronautica's entry about the Saturn V rocket What migh...

Location: Chair-bound, looking up There was a time when pundits predicted hundreds of thousands would live in Earth orbit or further up...

Location: Staring at the Shaving Mug I'm getting ready to shave again. Some time ago, I switched from an expensive and over-engineer...

Location: PayPal Even if the International Spaceflight Museum leaves Second Life for more edu-friendly spaces in OpenSim, they need ass...

  Location: Spaceport Alpha I'm a space-program junkie...I wanted to see a Kubrick-style future like that of 2001 so badly that it a...

Location: Looking Skyward I've really been enjoying Megan Prelinger's book Another Sc ience Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957...