Category Archives: Space

Live Long and Prosper – Iowa

December 17, 2011 – 9:42 am

Wilbur Harrison had a hit with KANSAS CITY. My schoolmate, Joe Fielder, traveled to the Paris of the Plains in 1965. The police caught him in St. Louis. He escaped through the bathroom window. The 14 year-old reached KC the next day. He ordered a steak and then rode a Greyhound to the South Shore [...]

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Virgin Galactic Tours

November 1, 2011 – 6:23 am

The Space Shuttle ATLANTIS flew its final mission to the International Space Station in July 2011. Its landing signaled the end of the four shuttle fleet’s service to the nation and the world. The decision to retired the orbiters was taken by President GW Bush, who considered the $4 billion budget would be better spent [...]

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Live Long and Prosper LOL

October 29, 2011 – 1:49 pm

Q: How many Klingons does it take to change a lightbulb? A: TWO: One to screw it in, and one to stab the other in the back and take all of the credit. Q: How many Klingons does it take to change a lightbulb? A: NONE: Klingons aren’t afraid of the dark. Q: What do [...]

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Sex in Space

October 28, 2011 – 10:38 am

In 2002 I wrote a screenplay IN HEAVEN ABOVE in which a former Soviet republic attempts to save itself from bankruptcy by holding a lottery. The prize is not money, but the chance to be the first man to have sex in space in a revamped space shuttle. I sent the scenario to a number [...]

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Danger Doctor Smith

October 28, 2011 – 9:39 am


The Space Race of the early 1960s exterminated young boys’ worship of westerns. Davy Crockett was ousted from our pantheon of heroism by America’s First Man in Space, Alan Shepherd and TV executives cancelled THE RIFLEMAN for MY FAVORITE MARTIAN. Cowboy hats, vests, guns, and holsters were retired to the closet next to toy boats [...]

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