Thirty-five years ago today -- September 9, 1975 -- the Viking-2 orbiter and lander were launched on their way to Mars by a Titan-IIIE booster out of Cape Canaveral. (First color image of Utopia Planitia taken by the Viking-2 lander. NASA image.) The first Viking lander had been launched a few weeks earlier, as noted in this blog post. Viking-2 landed about a year after launch ...
I set a modest goal for Dragon*Con this year: to buy and have signed two specific books. I achieved that goal yesterday, so the rest of the con will entail working at Jim Minz's behest at the Baen road show, attending whatever-the-heck-I-want, and making some progress on the short story I'm writing. The books I came in pursuit of were:Shades of Milk and Honey, the first novel by Mary Robinette Kowal, one of my writing friends from the Codex writers group who also happens to be ...
Forty years ago today -- August 17, 1970 -- the USSR launched the Venera-7 mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. (Venera-7 capsule. Image from the National Space Science Data Center.) Venera-7 landed on Venus on December 15, 1970, and was "the first man-made object to return data after landing on another planet."
Eighty years ago today -- August 5, 1930, Neil A. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He grew up to be the first man to walk on the surface of the Moon. (Neil Armstrong in the Lunar Module after walking on the Moon. NASA image.) And 35 years ago today, in 1975, test pilot John Manke glided the X-24B to a safe landing at Edwards AFB, thereby proving the concept that would allow Space ...
My story, "Memorial at Copernicus," went live today at Redstone Science Fiction. (Redstone Science Fiction logo. Click to enlarge.) It's a brief alternate history tale that takes place (of course) on the Moon; specifically, near Copernicus Crater. Here's the direct link if you want to check it out -- I hope you enjoy it! Also today, I completed a long-overdue web redesign. Let me know what you think! ...
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