What would it be like to have only experienced another planet, yet know about Earth?
background: illustration by Luis Peres for Scratching the Surface
Starship test hopper
What we know so far about Starship and its prototype taking shape in Texas.
Ars Technica New Horizons rocks
Trying to get back on top of things after the holidays or I’d have posted this sooner. It’s ridiculously cool.
Video clip 14: Inspiring my daughters
background: illustration by Luis Peres (https://icreateworlds.net/) for Scratching the Surface (https://generationmars.space/about/scratching-the-surface/)
Video clip 13: What we expect life will be like
Giving a little more screen real estate to the illustration in this one.
background: Illustration by Luis Peres for Scratching the Surface
Insight panorama
360Cities Christmas crater
Here’s a nice Christmas card from Mars: a crater filled with water ice.
Apollo 8 liftoff
Apollo 8 lifted off fifty years ago today, taking humans to orbit the Moon for the first time. This was also the first time a Saturn V carried humans. Originally scheduled as a test flight for orbital reentry, Russian successes prompted a revision of plans and 16 weeks later Apollo 8 lifted off to carry Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders around the Moon.
NASA Video clip 12: Parenting from scratch
This one touches on a parenting philosophy I’ve tried to follow since the birth of my oldest daughter and takes that to a new world.
background: illustration for Scratching the Surface by Luis Peres.
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