An anthology of authentic and realistic hard science fiction
There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, about a European company which signed a contract with a Japanese manufacturer of televisions. The contract allowed for 1% wastage, or 1 in 100 defective televisions sets. Come the day the first batch was delivered, and the CEOs of the two companies stood and watched as ninety-nine brand-new [...]
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Check out We Choose the Moon, an excellent web site allowing you to relive the mission in real-time. There’s even a desktop widget to track Apollo 11′s progress over the next eight days. They should have done this sort of stuff back in 1969. Oh, wait…
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Back in May, I decided to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing on my other blog, A Space About Books About Space. In keeping with the blog’s reason for being, I thought I’d do this by posting reviews of books specifically about Apollo 11 and its crew. So for the past few [...]
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