Mark Mortimer
The Voice of Dr. Wernher von Braun
A bit of inspiration and a pound of sweat. Sounds like a perfect recipe for advancement, but sometimes more is…
Book Review: Protostars and Planets V
Fabulous theories predict a dynamic, temporal universe. Assuming a special beginning and a robust continuance, we can imagine a transformation…
Book Review: Distant Worlds
Combine some dust together into a clump and you get a dust ball. Bring enough dust close together and a…
Book Review: The Telescope
The big bad wolf had big eyes to see better. But big eyes are only part of the solution for…
TV Review: Race to Mars
The red planet is so close we can almost taste it. Probes, landers and robots extend our reach into its…
Why the Sky is Blue
Just a few pages into Gotz Hoeppe's book, Why the Sky is Blue – Discovering the Color of Life and…
Book Review: Laika
Dogs were one of the first creatures to join with human tribes. Their barks and bites kept predators at bay…
Book Review: The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole
Combining large scale astronomical observations with the careful reasoning of physics leads to the widely encompassing field of astrophysics. Apparently,…
Book Review: The All-American Boys
We all look upon space voyagers with awe and envy. They've reached out and touched that which we can only…
Project Mercury and Project Gemini
Project Mercury and Project Gemini preceded the landing of a person on the Moon. These projects taught the United States…