Rocket Science: Chapter 15 – Illegal mods

Dan Wild

Previous Chapter… Luhman 16A, the brown dwarf around which revolved Crete, reposed in the sky like a rusty coin on the black interstellar bitumen. Moszkowski tapped Marley on the shoulder and pointed through the viewscreen. Marley saw him pointing to the brightest star in the Cretan sky. “Alpha Centauri. Have you been there Professor?” “Twice. …

Rocket Science: Chapter 14 – To the Cretan Eye

Dan Wild

Previous chapter The Cretan Eye majestically hung in the green-blue sky like a toy space station suspended above a crib. One kilometre in diameter, with a circumference of 3.141592654 kilometres, this vast satellite was a homage to nature’s most mysterious figure: π. A one mile diameter torus-style space-station orbited Mars, because Mars still used the …