Perseverance Landing Video

NASA released a new video of the landing, and it’s awesome. GeorgeI’m an author living in northern Virginia with a wife and a cat. In the late ’80s, I worked on the International Space Station project. I recently retired from managing a group of software engineers to focus on writing science fiction and speculative fiction. … Read more

Perseverance Has Landed!

Mars gained a new robotic inhabitant on February 18, 2021, Perseverance. NASA produced an animation showing how it’d look. Here’s the landing from the control center’s perspective. I watched live. My first thought was the younger generation is in control. Oh, there were some graybeards, but the younger generation was firmly entrenched in the control … Read more

Marvin the Martian

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Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom! –Marvin the Martian #MarsIsCool

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Death, Music, and Inspiration

Our musicians continue to leave us . . .

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