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Story Glossary: Steamboat

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Steam­boat (Lunar Lan­der from “Golf and Out­gassing”): This is the pri­ma­ry space­craft used by Annie Mac­In­turn­er and Mil­ton John­son for their mis­sion in the Fra Mau­ro region. Steam­boat is a mod­ern lunar lan­der designed for a two-day sur­face stay. It com­pris­es a descent stage, which remains on the lunar sur­face (sim­i­lar to Apol­lo lan­ders), and […]

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Is Colonization of Moon or Mars the Same Paradigm as Colonizing New Lands in the Past?

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So can we col­o­nize space like homo sapi­ens mov­ing out of Africa in the stone age, or like the Pil­grims col­o­nized Mass­a­chu­setts in the 1600s? How about cross­ing the land bridge to the Amer­i­c­as dur­ing the ice ages? The suc­cess of those efforts built upon two things: The stuff they brought with them, and The […]

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A Review of Black Hole Radio: Furilani by Ann Birdgenaw

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Review: Black Hole Radio: Furi­lani by Ann Bird­ge­naw­Black Hole Radio: Furi­lani by Ann Bird­ge­naw Great Sci­ence Fic­tion for Younger Read­ers Ann Bird­ge­naw has brought forth anoth­er in her series of Black Hole Radio sto­ries with the Furi­lani adven­ture. The adven­tur­ous kids, Hawk, Matt, and Celeste in the sto­ry use the Black Hole Radio, a relic […]

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