June 3rd, 2014
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Sally Ride, America’s First Woman in Space, is a new book written by veteran ABC News and 20/20 reporter Lynn Sherr. Published by Simon & Schuster, this 400-page book is available starting this month. Sherr has written this definitive and fascinating biography of Sally Ride, with exclusive insights from Ride’s family and partner. […]
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Just how fragile is NASA’s human spaceflight program? Is it lost in space? Get ready for the June 4th release of a new report from the National Research Council (NRC): Pathways to Exploration – Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration. Members of the authoring committee will present the report’s findings […]
Keep an eye out for Sky and Telescope magazine’s Mars 2014 issue! Mars – Mysteries & Marvels of the Red Planet is a fascinating look at the Red Planet, making use of maps, photos, and in-depth articles on a number of topics, such as the history of water on Mars, sniffing for methane on that enigmatic world, […]
They are big. They are bad. What to do with Earth-slamming near-Earth objects? I was pleased to assist the Secure World Foundation in preparing their new just-released document: Near-Earth Objects: Responding to the International Challenge This booklet has been designed to bring into focus the key issues faced by the international community in dealing with […]
As NASA’s Curiosity rover wheels about the Red Planet, the robot is on the lookout for habitable environments – sites that could have supported microbial life in the past. But new research led by a Brown University researcher suggests that slopes of a giant Martian volcano — once covered in glacial ice — may have […]
The Ad Astra Rocket Company of Webster, Texas has released an intriguing video on the future of their VASIMR engine concept. Since the 1970s, starting at MIT and then for 25 years at NASA, astronaut Franklin Chang Díaz and his team of scientists have worked to develop a faster propulsion technology for space travel. The […]
Buzz Aldrin and I had a wonderful day in Denver on Saturday, May 24th. In promoting our book — Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration – we visited both the Barnes and Noble bookstore in Glendale, Colorado as well as the magnificent Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum gala event in […]
2013-14 State of the Future by Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, and Elizabeth Florescu; The Millennium Project, Washington, D.C.; $39.95 US + shipping (soft cover); 2014. “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” said baseball great, Yogi Berra. However, you can get a big assist in foretelling what’s ahead by reading […]
Reminder! For those of you in the Denver, Colorado area: Today, on May 24th I’ll be teaming up with Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin at two different events. We’ll be discussing and signing our book – Mission to Mars – My Vision for Space Exploration. Events: […]
Earth’s Moon as art? NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has busily snagged countless images of the Moon’s landscape and is nearing five years in lunar orbit. To celebrate that approaching anniversary on June 18, NASA has invited the public to select a favorite orbiter image of the Moon for the cover of a special image […]
