The big picture

I had the great pleasure last year of attending Launch Pad, the NASA-funded astronomy program for authors.

Mike Brotherton -- astronomer, SF author, and impresario of the Launch Pad program -- has begun taking applications for the 2010 program.

If you're an author -- and the crowd was most assuredly not limited to SF types -- consider this post a ringing endorsement.

Official Launch Pad information
and application form are here.  But don't wait -- the application window closes on March 31st.

(Andromeda Galaxy photo attribution)  

(Horsehead Nebula photo attribution)