Tell me a Story….
We are in love with stories. Everyday of our lives, we are in the process of telling them, watching them, reading them, playing them, using words and visuals to convey what has been part of our past or what may be part of our tomorrows. Star Trek is a timeless collection of stories. The decades […]
Space Games is Now Destined for the International Space Station, March 22, 2016
The Space Games Challenge, a watershed STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) program has been created as a pre-college students space dream where students game inventions will be printed on a Made In Space, Inc. zero-gravity 3-D printer aboard the International Space Station (ISS), then ‘played’ by ISS astronauts. In late 2015, Made In Space […]
What Would You Take — for the Team?
‘Teamwork makes the dream work in spaceflight”, said astronaut Mark Kelly, who learned this from someone smart. “And spaceflight is the biggest team sport there is,” he added. Mark’s long ride has also brought us closer to the dream of long duration space flight. As Kelly completed his year in space aboard the International Space […]
How do Your Ideas ‘Happen?’
Intuition – Cosmic Whispers – and What’s Next Intuition is defined as a sixth sense, a voice that points to what we know as ‘something’, and a deeper wisdom that eludes definition. Intuition brings insight, creates choices, and changes lives. Are you intuitive? Here are some signs that you are, according to the Huffington Post, […]
Telling Time
The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While the former refers to chronological or sequential time, the latter signifies a time lapse, a moment of indeterminate time, the right or opportune moment, in which everything happens. When I was starting out, in my first big corporate ‘dream’ job that made others envious, I had yet to realize I was […]
The Most Common Regret — but you don’t have to make it yours
The New Year is almost here, a time for making promises. But resolutions that sound so seriously possible, especially when combined with champagne: “This year I’m going to…and I really mean it this time…”, are usually short-lived. Promises, Promises * 8% of resolutions stick * Among the Top 10 for 2015: enjoy life to […]
“What You Think You Cannot Do” – Living Outside the Comfort Zone
When did you last take a chance? Make a change? Take a risk? Step out of your own comfort zone with just one small step? Eleanor Roosevelt once remarked when asked about fear and courage: “The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you […]
HOW we look at the world is changing – what’s in store for our space future…
At the annual American Institute of Aeronautics and Aerospace (AIAA) SPACE 2015 Conference last week in Pasadena, CA, where down the street reside Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, I learned that the future has arrived. I strapped in, realizing that it’s happening faster than previously thought. We are redefining our boundaries each week, and […]
What We Each Take into Space When We Go
The Annual Novato, CA, Space Festival on August 1, was spectacular: several Apollo astronauts and Star Wars troopers greeted about 4000 guests who came to see what’s happening in the world of space. Experts from many fields, with telescopes to view the sun to samples of what’s been manufactured in space, were there to explain […]