{"id":315,"date":"2009-07-10T08:37:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T08:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=315"},"modified":"2009-07-10T08:37:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T08:37:24","slug":"does-moon-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/does-moon-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Moon Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As someone who a) loves to look up at the bright, shining moon, and b) has written two novels about life at a lunar colony,* I naturally answer “yes.”<\/p>\n

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\nNew Scientist<\/em> apparently agrees, in its commemorative series of articles entitled “Why the Moon Still Matters.”<\/a> This month, if you didn’t already know, is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo-11 lunar landing. As you might imagine, that’s a big deal to the likes of me.<\/p>\n

In related news, here’s a Spaceflight Now article<\/a> about NASA’s preparations for launching the Ares X-1, which will become the country’s “new moon rocket.”<\/p>\n

So, to repeat: yes, I think the moon matters.<\/p>\n

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\n*The first one, like so many first novels, was not worthy of being published. I thought it was, and so did a very small publisher, but that’s a story for another day. The second one, WALKING ON THE SEA OF CLOUDS, is making the submission rounds now. I think it’s a much better book, so here’s hoping….<\/p>\n

(Image Credit: Full moon image by longhorndave, licensed under Creative Commons, from Flickr)<\/em><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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