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Tag Archives: space exploration
Writing About the Space Business with Authority
Lately I’ve been doing a project for Spaceflight Insider that has required me to do a lot of research on launch vehicles (the engineers’ term for the rockets that get things off the ground). The challenge, sometimes, is getting the … Continue reading
Posted in engineering, journalism, research, science, technical writing
Tagged aerospace engineering, space exploration
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On Assignment
Today I will be on site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to observe and report on the launch of OSIRIS-REx, a.k.a. NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, a robotic spacecraft that will orbit and collect samples from … Continue reading
What Should You Learn to Work in the Space Business?
When readers email me about getting a writing job for NASA, a lot of the questions are very tactical: Who’s hiring? How do I brush up my resume/experience to get the job I want? That sort of thing. I have tried to share my advice on these … Continue reading
Reporting from a Distance
Recently I picked up a side gig doing reporting for SpaceflightInsider.com, a news site specializing in all things space–NASA, Department of Defense, commercial space, what have you. This is one of several ways I keep my toes in the space business … Continue reading
Book Review: Fallen Astronauts, Revised Edition
I’d read the original version of Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon four years ago. Originally published in 2003, the book is a candid, serious history of several NASA astronauts (and a few Soviet cosmonauts) who were in training … Continue reading
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Tagged author interview, book review, nonfiction, space exploration
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