Author Archives: Lee J. Russell

At Christmas 1975 I was given a copy of “The Sun annual for Boys” – it led with an article called “Vikings in Space” about the 2 Viking spacecraft that were being sent to Mars. That article kick-started my interest in Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science Fiction – here’s a great image and article fromContinue reading “Viking Landers on Mars – 1976”

We are living in an age of technological miracles! – Watch this video from ESA of the Philae lander’s descent to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at    Philae’s descent: The director’s cut   

Many people either simply don’t know that they can load other free books onto an Amazon Kindle e-book reader, or they are too worried about trying in case they ‘break something’. That is a shame because the Kindles can read .mobi format e-books very well, presenting them from the reader’s perspective in the same wayContinue reading “How to load .mobi books onto Kindle e-readers…”

Between 24th April 1955 to 9th January 1958, NBC broadcast a series of half-hour sci-fi radio stories under the title “X-Minus One”. These were small-cast productions, not just a narrator reading out loud, and the quality is often pretty good. The collection includes some classic stories from well known writers and I have 3 particularContinue reading ““X-Minus 1 radio dramas…””

My latest video blog update is about the use of Texture in fiction writing: Video blog on using Texture in fiction writing Short video blog about the use of Texture in fiction writing youtube.com

To quote BSG – “… Life here began out there…” http://www.sciencemag.org/news/sifter/rosetta-finds-ingredients-life-comet The Rosetta orbiter has detected some of the molecular building blocks for life on a comet, bolstering the theory that life on Earth could have been seeded by a small solar system body sciencemag.org

Still feel sad that this fantastic machine isn’t flying any more….     STS-4 / Columbia moving from VAB and heading for Pad 39A. Crew of Ken Mattingly and Hank Hartsfield would launch on June 27, 1982.

“Young star offers a glimpse of the Sun’s past” – interesting news story from NASA/ESA at http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/06/Young_star_offers_a_glimpse_of_the_Sun_s_past “… Located 1800 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, V1331 Cyg… may look like a star, it may be called a star, but it does not yet generate energy like a normal star. This is because this starContinue reading “From 13/7/16: “”Young star offers a glimpse of the Sun’s past” – interesting news story from NASA/ESA…””

Lovely feature called King Arthur’s Beard that we saw at Wookey Hole today – apparently the flutes were carved by glacial meltwaters carrying grits & pebbles – pretty cool You can leave a comment on this post, or anything else on my website, with this form.

Fantastic image of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from the Rosetta spacecraft. Rosetta was just 12.8 km from 67P when the picture was taken – the scale is 1.18 m/pixel and the image spans about 2.4 km. Our week through the lens: 8-12 August 2016 esa.int|By esa http://www.esa.int/Highlights/Week_In_Images_8_12_August_2016/