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  2. Life on Mars (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    As all the best poetry does, Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled." [3] Jollimore praised the poem "My God, It’s Full of Stars" as "particularly strong, making use of images from science and science fiction to articulate human desire and grief ...

  3. Alfred Worden - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, Worden's autobiography, Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon made the top 12 of the Los Angeles Times Bestseller list. [38] He also wrote Hello Earth: Greetings from Endeavour (1974), a collection of poetry, in 1974, and a children's book, I Want to Know About a Flight to the Moon (1974). [96]

  4. High Flight - Wikipedia

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    Orson Welles read the poem on an episode of The Radio Reader's Digest (11 October 1942), [9] [10] Command Performance (21 December 1943), [11] and The Orson Welles Almanac (31 May 1944). [12] High Flight has been a favourite poem amongst both aviators and astronauts. It is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force.

  5. U.S. Poet Laureate verses are soaring into space — literally

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    U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón has revealed her latest poem that will be engraved aboard a NASA spacecraft that will travel billions of miles in space. U.S. Poet Laureate verses are soaring into ...

  6. Aniara - Wikipedia

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    According to Ott and Broman, Aniara is an effort to "[mediate] between science and poetry, between the wish to understand and the difficulty to comprehend". [10] Martinson translates scientific imagery into the poem: for example, the "curved space" from Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity is likely an inspiration for Martinson's description of the cosmos as "a bowl of glass ...

  7. The Green Hills of Earth - Wikipedia

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    "The Green Hills of Earth" is also the title of a song mentioned in several of Heinlein's novels. The Rhysling Award for speculative fiction poetry awarded by the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) [1] is named for the blind poet Rhysling in “The Green Hills of Earth.” [2] Rhysling (crater) [3] on the Moon was named by Apollo 15 ...

  8. Review: Should Humans Settle Mars? This Book Is Skeptical. - AOL

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    A City on Mars is a counterbalance to the growing optimism over space exploration.

  9. Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet - Wikipedia

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    Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet is a children's literature book by science writer June A. English and astronaut Thomas David Jones that was published in 1996 by Scholastic. Jones was among the crew members of the Space Shuttle Endeavour during an eleven-day mission in space , which was launched in April 1994 to study the ecological ...