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Apollo 17 and a book review!

January 24, 2025 catholicfictioncatholicscience2 Comments

Across the Airless Wilds by Earl Swift, 2021, Harper Collins, New York was one of my Christmas presents. The subtitle, The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, makes clear what the book is about. The author writes, in a discussion of the Apollo 14 mission, "the moon played tricks on them. [...]

Dr. John Aloysius O’Keefe, Catholic scientist

February 23, 2024 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

Once upon a time … that’s how I’ve begun to think about Dr. John Aloysius O’Keefe III, and his career as an astrophysicist. I have stories about him in my head that are quite clearly mixed up. He went to Harvard as an undergraduate and tangled with the head of the Astronomy Department there, as [...]