• Crewed or Crude?

    I’ve decided to not like the term “crewed” when referring to a spaceship that has human beings in it.  Granted, the term is now used as a replacement for the word “manned” because spaceships nowadays have women in them too, either as crew or passengers.  In the beginning of the US “Man in Space” program,…

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  • Beauty In Outer Space

    One of my three science fiction novels is about a group of explorers who land on a distant planet in an attempt to see if it could be colonized by people of their civilization.  Many things go wrong on that planet, and that leads most of the group to consider it as dangerous and unattractive, a place to…

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