Today’s space history anniversary: Fifty years ago today — October 7, 1958 — Project Mercury was formally organized in Washington, D.C. Almost makes me want to watch The Right Stuff.
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In other news, my friend Edmund Schubert, editor of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, posted a nice list of writerly terms on his blog. It’s a good run-down of terms aspiring writers need to understand.
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