So it seems there's a documentary, released ?last year, called The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill (page includes trailer). Opening sequence.
Seems to be on iTunes and Google Play. I remember when The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space came out, in 1976 ( Read more... )

I may have gone down a few too many rabbit holes this week. And not ( Read more... )

Round Dance - 2138

It looks nothing at all like the old pictures ( Read more... )

If I remember correctly, I watched the moon landing on the TV in the lounge at the Stanford AI Lab, 45 years ago today. It was the start of my first year of grad school.

I missed my 45th reunion at Carleton a few weeks ago. IIRC I went to my 25th, but it might have been my 30th.

My 50th high school reunion is next year.

I ( Read more... )

*waves to cflute and tibicina*

YouTube - Ian Anderson + Cady Coleman flute duet in space

By way of peteralway: Fluuuuuuutes in Spaaaaaaaaaace!

Fifty years after Sputnik launched! Let's see; I was 10 years old then, and already ( Read more... )

July 20, 1969.

By coincidence, July 20 was the original due date for our first child, which is why chaoswolf's middle name is Diana. She decided to arrive early, though, which is why she celebrates her birthday during Westercon.

This year, I'm celebrating by burning a disk which I hope is epsilon away from a master for Coffee, ( Read more... )

Public Domain paintings by Don DavisPUBLIC DOMAIN WORKS DONE FOR NASA.

These are some of my works commissioned by various NASA facilities. They are offered here to provide something like definitive digital versions of such images for anyone who wants to have them. You paid for them and they're yours.
The server seems to be quite slow, ( Read more... )

Keep the Dream Alive
© 1986, 2003 Stephen Savitzky.

In the year of Nineteen Eighty Six ( Read more... )

NSS Space Settlement Calendar Art ContestThe National Space Society (NSS) is looking for artists to create visions of a spacefaring future - a future of space settlement, be it on the Moon, on Mars, on asteroids, or orbiting independently in space. To bring attention to our goal of creating a spacefaring future, NSS is sponsoring a contest for such ( Read more... )