Writers on the Moon listed on DHL Moonbox’s Wikipedia page.
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Writers on the Moon, Manifest #16-30
The Stories Behind the Stories for Manifest authors #16-30 are live on the website.
What I love about these stories is they’re all unique, just like the authors who wrote them. That’s an essential part of the project: this isn’t a list of the most famous authors who ever lived or the rarefied literarti of a small part of the planet… this is regular people, telling their stories and sharing their written art. Life is ephemeral — it turns out the internet isn’t forever — and it’s very difficult to imagine what life was like even 10 or 20 years ago, much less a hundred. I imagine our future Lunar anthropologist sifting through these stories of lives and the kinds of tales we felt important to tell, and learning so much about living in the early 21st Century… things that are perhaps invisible to us now because we take them so much for granted.
Please take a moment to look through these stories of your fellow authors… and share their works (see the blog post!) so the readers of today (not just tomorrow) might learn of them.
#15 Cynthia Port
#16 Addison Moore
#17 Marilyn Peake
#18 T.K. Eldridge
#19 Damyanti Biswas
#20 Jon Frater
#21 Aarti V Raman
#23 S. J. Pajonas
#24 Anthea Sharp
#25 RJ Crayton
#26 Patricia Gilliam
#28 Christine Pope
#29 Shéa MacLeod
#30 Jamie Krakover
Our Moon Lander in the NYT
“Vulcan, a rocket built by United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The rocket’s engines are built by Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos of Amazon. It could fly on Jan. 8.”
THAT’S OUR RIDE!
“Three missions attempted to land on the moon in 2023. Only one, Chandrayaan-3 from India, succeeded. Four additional missions — and perhaps even more — will also try to complete a lunar landing in 2024:”
- SLIM, a Japanese mission, should be the first lunar landing attempt of 2024, on Jan. 20. The small, experimental spacecraft launched in September and is already orbiting the moon.
- Two other missions come from private companies, with NASA as their primary customer. Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh company, will launch its Peregrine lunar lander on Jan. 8, which could attempt to set down near the Ocean of Storms on the moon’s near side in February. Intuitive Machines of Houston will send its own lander toward the moon’s south pole as early as mid-February.
- China is also planning its fourth moon landing. Chang’e-6 could head toward the moon’s far side in May, gathering samples of moon rock and dust to bring to Earth for study.
Other missions are more tentative. The Japanese company Ispace, which crashed its first lander last year, could make a second attempt late this year. And Intuitive Machines has ambitions of sending two more NASA-sponsored missions to the moon in 2024″
It’s important to remember that space travel is risky! Lots of things can (and have) gone wrong with other lunar landers. First step is a successful launch. Even trickier will be a successful landing. But, as my husband the lunar rover designer says, even a “hard” landing on the moon will likely keep our Writers on the Moon payload intact (even though it will be an unhappy day for the science payloads). We just need to get there… then we’re likely to be okay. And then we’ll become an archeological site for some future Lunar explorer!
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