Glow of the rocket on every TV

1958 photo of family watching TV. (I modified TV face to show them watching the 1961 Freedom 7 launch.)

To Saturn and Beyond

Cut text from very old Japanese poems and other sources borrowed for a poem. Poem pasted onto an image from “Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy.”

chained to planet-home

Text cut from a 1917 “Popular Science Monthly” article and pasted onto a 19th century French map of Earth.

space is

A cut text #fundPlanetary haiku. I pulled the text from “Applications of Space Flight in Materials Science and Technology” (materials from a 1977 conference).

Elegy

Cut text poem glued to background image (Cassini picture of Saturn scratched with a cheese crater). Cassini and other missions are facing severe budget cuts.  Original image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Cassini vs. Mars

NASA’s funding for planetary science is in jeopardy (including the Cassini mission to Saturn and the Opportunity rover mission on Mars). Please help “fund planetary” by contacting your Congressperson. The background image is a comparison of Saturn’s moon Titan (left) and a Viking 1 photo of Mars (right). Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute (2004).

lure me to new land