Articles
Here are a few highlights of articles I’ve written for Universe Today, Space Lifestyle Magazine, Wired.com, Space.com and more:
- Accessible Astronomy: Touching the Night Sky
- Searching for Moon Rocks Here on Earth
- What Was the Norway Spiral?
- No, NASA is Not Bombing the Moon
- How to Handle Moon Rocks and Lunar Bugs: A Personal History of NASA’s Lunar Receiving Lab
- Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations
- New Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Discovered
- A Supernova Story
- JPL Offers Peek Into MSL Clean Room
- New Company Looks to Develop Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade
- Galaxy Zoo 2 Launches
- Citizen Science: Unmanned Spaceflight
- Large Quantities of Methane Being Replenished on Mars
- Wood Plank Found on Mars
- Unusual Red Galaxies “Strangled
- Earth’s 10 Most Impressive Impact Craters
- Wired Gallery: Giants of Earth and Space (Wired.com)
- Teacher-Astronaut’s Legacy Uncovered 22 Years After Challenger Disaster
- Space Vote 2008 (Space Lifestyle Magazine)
- Hunting For Meteorites at the Bottom of the World
- Exclusive Sptizer Image of “Celestial Geode”
- XCOR: Economy Class Space Tourism For a First Class Company (Space Lifestyle Magazine)
- Tyson and Sykes Duke Out the Great Planet Debate; Flatow Almost Flattened
- From Space to the Olymics
- Colonizing Venus With Floating Cities
- Cruising the Cloud Tops of Venus With a Solar Powered Airplane
- Thinking About Time Before the Big Bang
- One Way Mission to Mars: US Soldiers Will Go
- Dear Phoenix: All Our Hopes
- The Navigators (Space Lifestyle Magazine)
- A One Way, One Person Mission to Mars
- An Elegant Proposal for Near Earth Asteroid Deflection
- I Heart the ISS: Ten Reasons to Love the International Space Station
- Rocketplane’s John Herrington: A NewSpace VP and Former Astronauts Talks About Reorganization, Redesign and COTS (Space Lifestyle Magazine)
- Heavy Construction on the Moon
- Happy Holidays in Space
- Spirit’s Big Discovery
- Building Blocks of Life Can Form on Cold, Rocky Planets — Anywhere
- Water or Land: The Orion Landing Choice
- ‘Tis the Season to Explore the North Pole — On the Moon
- True or False (Color): The Art of Extraterrestrial Photography
- A Submarine for Europa
- The One and Only Bad Astronomer (Space Lifestyle Magazine)
- The Mars Landing Approach: Getting Large Payloads to the Surface of the Red Planet
- By the Light of the Earth: Derham Grad Joins Elite Group of Women Who Have Walked in Space (St. Paul Villager Newspaper)
- Diving Into Space (St. Paul Villager)
- MRO Aerobraking Surprises ScientistsSTS-115 Brings More Power to the Station
- Cuts in NASA Science Missions
- Bringing Stardust Home
- Without a Hitch(Oswego Ledger Sentinel Newspaper
- Leading the Way Back to the Moon
- Springfield Native Designing NASA Moon Spacecraft (State Journal-Register,Springfield, IL)
- Satellites on a Budget
- New Horizons Prepares to Zoom to Pluto
- Has Spirit Found Bedrock in the Columbia Hills?(Astrobiology Magazine)
- Has Spirit Found Bedrock in Columbia Hills? (UT)
- Testing New Technologies — In Space
- Mars: The Other Time of Flight(Astrobiology Magazine)
- Mini-Detector Could Find Life on Mars or Anthrax at the Airport
- A Pristine View of the Universe — From The Moon
- Riding in Magnetic Bubbles(Astrobiology Magazine)
- Magnetic Bubbles Could Protect Astronauts On Long Trips
- Back to Earth (St. Paul, MN Villager)
- U of I Students Travel to X Prize Launch (Springfield, IL State Journal Register)
- Mars Rovers Find Evidence of Water (Ledger Sentinel Newspaper)
- Mars Rover Landing a Bulls-eye (Ledger Sentinel Newspaper)
- From Kendall County to Mars (Ledger Sentinel Newspaper)
- Seeing Stars: SIRTF Takes a New Look at the Universe (State Journal Register)
- Local Science Heroes Help Explore Mars
- First of Two Rovers on the Way to Mars
- Destination Mars (State Journal-Register)
- Seeing Red: Illinois native plays a role in the latest mission to Mars (State Journal-Register)
- Dark Secrets: Researcher shares latest theories on the universe (State Journal-Register)
- Altman Reflects on Shuttle Tragedy (State Journal-Register)
- Space Shuttle Accident Hits Close to Hometown Astronaut (St. Paul Villager)
- Belleville Native’s Job Takes Her to Space (State Journal-Register)
- Highland Park Graduate Recounts Role in Recent Shuttle Success (St. Paul Villager)
- Beyond the Wild Blue (St. Paul Villager)
- Planetarium Backers Shoot For The Stars (Space.com)
- Meteorologist on a Mission (Space.com)
