Science
“…To go where no one has gone
before…” James T. Kirk,
Captain of the Enterprise.
“Always use the word
Impossible with the greatest caution.”
Wernher von Braun,
builder of the Saturn V super launch vehicle that sent Americans to the Moon in
1969.
Interests have centered around 2 areas of astronomy and physics:
1) Planetary Evolution, especially of the terrestrial (i.e. Earth-like) worlds, and
2) Space Technology, especially of rockets and space biospheres…
…because of the framework
they provide to understand the history of life on Earth and the future of life
in space.
At the Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida where America's 1st satellite Explorer I
was launched on January 31, 1958; Next door to Kennedy Space Center.