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Moonwalker: Meeting Apollo Astronaut Charlie Duke [Squeals!] – Part I
Last Friday I travelled to Glasgow, Scotland, to meet a man who has walked on the moon. (And Ben Johncock, who kindly gave me the ticket that would allow me to meet the man who has walked on the moon,...
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Moonwalker: Meeting Apollo Astronaut Charlie Duke [Squeals!] Part II
[Last Friday I travelled to Glasgow, Scotland, to meet one of my Apollo astronaut heroes, Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke. You can read the first part of this post here.] The John and Charlie...
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The Time It Takes to Fall: A Different Perspective on Challenger
Twenty-five years ago today, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated in the skies above Florida’s Space Coast, killing all seven astronauts on board and any illusions anyone may have had about space...
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132 Launches in 132 Seconds
The Space Shuttle Discovery is currently a couple of hundred miles above the earth kissing the International Space Station and hopefully enjoying its last ever trip into orbit. Discovery is of course...
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The Wonderful Professor
The amazing Wonders of the Universe started on BBC2 last week and marked the return to Sunday night TV of the “thinking girl’s crumpet” (not my words, but I agree), Professor Brian Cox. If I had known...
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Go For Launch… For The Last Time Ever
The Space Shuttle Atlantis left earth today on not only its final ever mission, but the final mission of the entire Space Shuttle fleet. Apparently 1 million people descended on Florida’s Space Coast...
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What I Thought Of: SEX ON THE MOON by Ben Mezrich
Every once in a while you hear a little snippet of a story and you think to yourself, I wish someone would write a book about that. I bet it’d be really interesting. Luckily for me, my wishes always...
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If I Could Be Anyone, I’d Be…
Today we’re taking a break from the headaches of self-publishing to participate in super blogger Talli Roland’s “web splash” to celebrate the launch of her second novel, Watching Willow Watts. I...
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Thank You, Commander
I know this isn’t self-publishing-related, but being a NASA nut it’s Catherine-related and, hey, this is my blog. Today Commander Chris Hadfield returns to earth from the International Space Station....
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All of You on the Good Earth: Apollo 8
In the Mission Space chapter of my book Mousetrapped, I talk about how the crew of Apollo 8 – the first of humankind to escape the gravitational bonds of earth, travel 250,000 miles away from home and...
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