A PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE is to a total eclipse what a garden drizzle is to a mountain storm: light rain and pleasant greenery versus stacked, black thunderheads belching lightning, thunder, and Continue reading →
“ON MY FIRST MISSION I WAS so focused on what I was doing—I didn’t want to screw anything up—that I didn’t look out the window during launch. We were in space Continue reading →
WE LIVE ON EARTH. Earth is a dump of iron and magnesium and nickel, smeared with a thin layer of organic matter, and sleeved in vapor. It whirls along in a Continue reading →