I have been a closet space traveller ever since I discovered the works of EE (Doc) Smith back when the dinosaurs were facing extinction. I spent my time Skylarking through space as a Junior Lensman.
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet had a lot to do with my hopes of reaching for the moon and beyond.
My vision of being in space and landing on alien planets was always vague and included dangerous, virgin-snatching monsters and repellent slimes.
Yet it seems that being on a different planet does not change nature all that much.
Mechanical things looks just as mechanical on Mars as they do on Earth.
Click on the image for a full explanation from NASA’s Picture of the Day website.
Filed under: science | Tagged: EE (doc) Smith, Lensman, Mars, NASA, Phoenix Mission, Skylark, Space, space flight, Space trave, Tom Corbett
Doesn’t it still give you a thrill down your backbone to know we (Mankind) can still DO this???! We haven’t quite gone back to our best (worst?) Isolationist disgrace … we CAN still look to the stars! Well done, NASA.
That thrill is still there – it is the ambition which has been tempered by age and experience
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