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"Space, the final
frontier.
These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.
Its five year mission:
to explore strange new worlds,
to seek out new life and new civilizations,
to boldly go where no man has gone before." |
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Star Trek, Original Series
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I
got "hooked" into astronomy and the possibility
for life on other worlds from Star
Trek, Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey',
space artists Chesley Bonestell and David
A. Hardy, and great science fiction writers
like Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke,
Philip Dick, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Larry
Niven, Frederik Pohl, and Robert Silverberg. These
days, I satisfy my urge for intergalactic travel
with scientific
colloquia and public lectures at Goddard
Space Flight Center, meetings of the National
Capital Astronomers and Northern
Virginia Astronomy Club, public stargazing
at Sky
Meadows State Park, exhibits and lectures
at the Smithsonian
National Air and Space Museum, and Open
Houses at the University
of Maryland Observatory. The National
Air and Space Society also sponsors lectures
at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
From time to time, there are lectures on astronomy
and astrobiology at Carnegie
Institution of Washington (Admin,
DTM,
GL),
Smithsonian
Resident Associate Program, and Philosophical
Society of Washington. |
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