“Space, the final frontier…” You know the rest if you’ve ever watched Star Trek. We see that star-filled void over our heads every night. Satellites pass through it as they orbit the earth in carefully planned courses. Astronauts, humans brave enough to venture outside of the safety of the atmosphere…

(Spoiler Warning, I talk about the whole series) last week I got bored and watched the six episodes of The Rig on prime video. I figured it was going to be stupid from the start, but as long as it was mildly entertaining, I didn’t care. It’s about an oil…

Shane sat in the pilot seat of the lander, watching on his tablet a live feed from the vehicle’s external cameras. His arm was wrapped in a sling and held against his chest. Duncan had pushed his shoulder back into its socket during the solar storm several days ago. …

Asteroid Wranglers: Part Four Shane used a power hammer to drive a stake into the hard metallic surface of the asteroid. When it was finished, he moved the hammer off to the side, which floated for a moment before lazily drifting downward. He attached a loop of cable to the…

Asteroid Wranglers: Part Three Shane dropped through the hatch into the lander. The lander had an elongated hexagonal shape, with the rear flattened. A single pilot seat sat at the front of the lander, and three more sat behind it for Shane and the other two members of his drilling…

Fire alarms blared throughout the ship as Shane unbuckled himself from his bed and scrambled out of his bunk. He pushed off the frame toward the wall where the emergency breathing masks were stored. Quickly, he stuck one on his face, then grabbed another. …

Drill Master Shane Slater hovered above the hull of the vessel Midas in his spacesuit with an AMU, (Astronaut Maneuvering Unit) attached to it. Tiny points of light shone faintly across the black void of space above the surface of the ship. The craft was named after the mythological Greek…

“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” –Matt.22 verse 37–39 Neighbors…

“There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background.” — Mehmet Murat Ildan Venus, the second planet from the sun, often referred to as Earth’s twin. This…