| Published: February 2, 2012 – 10:06 am
Audacious— that’s how I describe the Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory radio telescope. For me, it was just hard to believe what I was seeing. I just returned from my first Planetary Society-sponsored trip to Puerto Rico and this historic, remarkable, big idea of a machine. If you’re not familiar with this observatory, it was featured Read More >
| Published: September 2, 2010 – 7:42 pm
Is Venus the forgotten planet, or just one that’s hard to figure out? Absorbing the presentations at the Venus EXploration Advisory Group (VEXAG) meeting in Madison, Wisconsin in the U.S. this week, I can tell you Venus is both. Many people around our world of space explorers seldom think about Venus. This is evidenced by Read More >
| Published: July 20, 2010 – 9:04 pm
On July 20th, we commemorate an historic event in the history of humankind and of science. Forty-one years ago, humans walked on the Moon, the Earth’s Moon– our Moon. It took enormous resources and people willing to work long hours and take some big risks. The Moon landings were a result of the Cold War. Read More >
| Published: June 7, 2010 – 11:53 am
After 24 and half years as a freelancer, I found a day job. Well perhaps the day job found me. One day, as a very young man, around age seven, my older brother Darby patiently wound the rubber band “motor” on a newly purchased Skystreak balsawood airplane, and handed the aircraft to me. Having flown Read More >
| Published: April 19, 2010 – 8:55 pm
Greetings space explorers. Last week, I traveled to Cape Canaveral and sat in a spacecraft assembly building– very cool, wide open, precisely laid out space with a polished floor. The President of the United States announced a new plan, a new initiative to take humans to another world. We’ll go to the places in space, Read More >
