by Joseph Green | science, space |
DURING MY THIRTY-ONE YEARS at the Kennedy Space Center I spent six of them working at what was then called Unmanned Launch Operations, or ULO; first for a two-year stint, and later on a four. I did no real work on the first two American manned space programs, Mercury...
by Joseph Green | science, space |
STEPHEN PINKER, a Harvard professor and author of several popular science books (The Blank Slate being perhaps the best known) last year wrote a short but potent article discussing the ongoing clashes between science and popular culture, religion, and the humanities....
by Joseph Green | economics, writing |
I RETIRED FROM NASA (as Deputy Chief, KSC Education Office) at the end of 1996. I’ve now been retired more years than I worked for any one employer (the longest two, NASA 13, Boeing 11). And in some ways these so-called ‘Golden Years’ are indeed the...
by Joseph Green | writing |
MOST PEOPLE ARE UNAWARE that I’m the author of the first DAW novel. The reason that fact is not well know is fairly straightforward. Don wanted to start his new line with some big names. He persuaded two of the then biggest, Andre Norton and A.E. van Vogt, to...
by Joseph Green | space |
MY SIGNATURE rests on the Moon. While it contributed nothing to the American space program, I get a lot of personal satisfaction from the above. It came about this way. Shortly before John Young, Charles Duke and Ken Mattingly lifted off on the Apollo 16 mission, many...
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