| 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 >
| Published: March 2, 2010 – 10:28 am
On Saturday February 27, The Planetary Society honored Stephen Hawking with the Cosmos Award, named in honor of Carl Sagan. Professor Hawking delivered an insightful talk about balancing robot exploration with human spaceflight. Then our panel took questions from the British audience. We all want to extend our reach to distant destinations, especially Mars. For Read More >
| Published: November 12, 2009 – 10:31 am
About fifteen years ago, I had the honor and pleasure of having lunch with Glenn Seaborg. Unlike many of us, he was awarded a Nobel Prize. He discovered, or created, or contrived the means to prepare the very first piece of Plutonium humans had ever seen. He was of the Nuclear Age, a time when it was imagined that nuclear power would render electricity too cheap to even bother charging customers for. Read More >
