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Pictures for my next blog post, which is meant to be an STS-1 tie-in. Hopefully I'll get it done during the period when COLUMBIA was in orbit 40 years ago (that is, by end-of-day Wednesday). No Shortage of Dreams: https://t.co/LVBU2gXZsU

I'd like to write an optimistic book about our future in space that doesn't stray into Cloud Cuckoo Land. That's hard to do these days. Realistic-yet-optimistic visions tend to get drowned out by hyperbole, hero worship, and hyperventilation, none of which are very interesting.

Four anthologies set in shared carefully created worlds. The story quality is uneven but the worldbuilding is always fascinating. All good enough to survive the Great Portree Library Cull of 2021. #knowmybooksknowme

The date is 4-3-21! Thanks to @_HerbBaker for pointing this out. I can't pass this up - here's a post from my blog No Shortage of Dreams about a 1971-72 plan to establish a new launch site for the Shuttle. 40 US states offered up candidate sites! https://t.co/hnhQzus7a8

New post — Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle: Triamese (1968-1969) https://t.co/4UYZSE1gaE No Shortage of Dreams

My forthcoming post on the Triamese shuttle made me think about this post from September. Star-Raker got its start at about the same time as Triamese (1968), but refused to die and was a candidate in 1977-78 for launching Solar Power Satellite parts. https://t.co/LtxXDUW542

More fun than ISS: a 1993 NASA plan for a joint U.S./Russian lunar outpost architecture using lunar resources! https://t.co/3Gzr0jY0Ln No Shortage of Dreams

This is, alas, one of the Mars expedition plans I had to leave out of my 2001 NASA-published book HUMANS ON MARS. It's way cool, though. Astronauts on Mars in 1995! (With illustrations by the legendary David Hardy.) https://t.co/SCtM96HPxZ

I'm writing a post now on the 1968-1969 Triamese shuttle design. The Initial Point Design - the one I am focusing on - was very definitely a logistics and crew vehicle for a large (50-100-person) space station.

In January 1965, NASA planned as many as 55 Apollo-derived Apollo Extension System missions between January 1966 and December 1971. AES became the Apollo Applications Program which in turn became Skylab. https://t.co/tHZbk5yF7O