Trek over to the Planetary Society

Just a quick shout out to my old friend Andre Bormanis, who is guest-blogging this week at the Planetary Society Blog.

I met Andre years ago when he gave a talk at Goddard Space Flight Center, where I worked. He was the science advisor for Star Trek (I gave him a copy of a Hubble image with a decidedly Star Trek feel to it), and later became a writer for "Enterprise". Then he made a very smart decision, and gave me a tour of the set. To this day it is still one of the coolest things I’ve ever done. Anyway, beam on over to the PSB and give it a read.

August 7th, 2006 5:00 PM by Phil Plait in Cool stuff, Science | 2 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

2 Responses to “Trek over to the Planetary Society”

1. Evolving Squid Says:
August 7th, 2006 at 10:14 pm

In my world at the moment, a beautiful crescent Moon is hanging in the sky.

When did he write that? The date says today, but the moon is nearly full

Ok, that was extraordinarily picky

Cool article. thanks.

I have often wondered whether human astronauts are something that we need more of, less of, or none of. I’m looking forward to the future installments of the article.
2. Gary Ansorge Says:
August 8th, 2006 at 6:09 am

Dang, I knew I parked that ship SOMEWHERE. Ah, the trials and tribulations of a very long life,,,I keep misplacing things,,,

Beautiful imagery. Keep up the parallel processing. Someday it will lead you HOME,,,

GAry 7
,,, to a High Orbit Manufactured Environment

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