Mark Mortimer

Book Review: The New Moon

You've watched Star Wars and Star Trek and you believe people are destined to live in space. Heck, we've even…

10 years ago

Book Review: “Our Mathematical Universe – My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”

Mathematics seems to be the bane of many people, and especially many authors. Editors will often say that putting any…

11 years ago

Falling to Earth

People have walked on the Moon. A lucky few. Most have readily shared their experience; some did so with a…

13 years ago

Around the World in 84 Days – The Authorized Biography of Skylab Astronaut Jerry Carr

Flying into space requires money, good fortune and desire. Some astronauts relied upon the government for money, had good fortune…

14 years ago

Blogging the Moon

The Earth's Moon beckons just above us like a seductive siren. For some it’s the next step in humankind's journey…

14 years ago

The Wright Stuff

Space holds the future of our species. While we've been flying for just barely over a century, we've also been…

14 years ago

Live TV from the Moon

Acting as a surrogate umbilical cord between society and its offspring, live television emissions connected the family's living room to…

14 years ago

Voyages of Discovery

[/caption]The end of the space shuttle's service life lies nigh before us. There's no surprise then that reviews are coming…

14 years ago

Krafft Ehricke’s Extraterrestrial Imperative

What if you believe in something with all your heart and it still doesn't come true? If you're Krafft Ehricke…

14 years ago

Moon 3-D

[/caption] As Earth's Moon gently passes across the night sky, Earth bound planners try to make it a more immediate…

14 years ago