Michael Shinabery, an education specialist and Humanities Scholar at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo, New Mexico posts frequent articles on a range of space history topics. His latest article is about Max Valier, a rocketry pioneer and early science fiction writer : Valier Envisions Rocketry Through Engineering and Sci-Fi (Part 1) – This Week In Space History/Moonandback.
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Speaking of science fiction, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen is writing a novel about space mining and getting help from a NASA program designed to assist SF writers with space technical info :
- Bill Clinton’s defense secretary is writing an asteroid-mining novel – io9
- NASA Tries to Rewrite the Book on Science Fiction – WSJ.com
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