The Girl In The Wreckage

by | Jan 29, 2026 | Science Fiction, Short Story, Space

The Girl In The Wreckage The place was a mess. Steel girders floated past as I stood on the wreckage of the space station orbiting Mars.  I had to quickly duck for cover a few times to avoid being hit by one. Mangled and mutilated body parts of the now dead occupants...

Space Warfare

by | May 8, 2025 | Reach For The Stars Trilogy, Space

  How effective is warfare in space? Can lasers and missiles really hit moving objects from a distance in space? We have all read about it and seen it in science fiction books and movies. Ships firing at each other from huge distances and somehow directly striking...

Paradox of Wormholes

by | Nov 28, 2024 | Cosmology, Space

If wormholes large enough for humans to traverse exist, what could we use them for? Now, I don’t profess to be an expert on General Relativity or Quantum physics, so take what I say here with a grain of salt. A bit of imaginative thinking, maybe. We know it...

Marooned in Space

by | Oct 10, 2024 | Space

Two astronauts stranded on the international space station have been in the news recently. The Starliner transport module, developed by Boeing, was stricken with propulsion issues leaving the two people on the station with no means of returning to earth. It got me...

Building in Space

by | Jun 27, 2024 | Space

Space X recently completed their first successful flight of their gigantic Starship spacecraft. That got me thinking of how we could use it to ship larger payloads into space. This would help construct larger space stations and other structures faster. That then got...

The Ninth Planet

by | May 15, 2024 | Space

Is there a ninth planet out there beyond Pluto? Scientists have speculated such a celestial body since the 1850’s. And yet no one can find it. Unexplained movement of the outer planets Jupiter and Saturn led astronomers to believe more planets were out there....