Bibliography: Magazine And Broadcast Media Publications

Ad Astra

• August 2000, Part II: Brave New World? American Colonial History as a Guide to Building Space Societies
• June 2000, Part I: Brave New World? American Colonial History as a Guide to Building Space Societies

Air And Space Smithsonian Magazine

• May 2010, Mr. Fix-it: the Story of Frank Cepollina and Servicing in Space
• September 2003, Growing Pains: Agriculture in Space

American Greatness

• May 21, 2019, A Government Coup by NASA’s Bureaucracy
• October 12, 2018, Bring on More Kavanaughs!
• January 31, 2018, NASA’s Safety Bureaucracy Tips the Scales Against Private Space

American History

• April 2001, Escape from the Iroquois

Astronomy

• February 2014, Cover story: Does methane flow on Titan
• January 2014, How much water is on the Moon?
• February 2012, Will we go back to the Moon?
• February 2010, How astronomers probe weather on exoplanets
• October 2009, Epsilon Aurigae: Astronomy’s longest-running mystery show
• October 2008, Taking Venus by Storm: The results from Venus Express
• July 2008, Cover story: The Life and Death of Super Suns: the secrets of Wolf-Rayet stars
• February 2007, What Makes Mira Tick?
• July 2006, Witness to Cosmic Collisions The Swift Telescope Helps Unlock the Mystery of Short Gamma Ray Bursts
• December 2005, The Man Who Doubled the Sky: John Herschel’s Survey of the Heavens
• November 2004, More Bad Culture at NASA? Op-ed at Astronomy.com.
• November 2004, Cover story: The Looming Death of the Hubble Space Telescope?
• August 2004, Seeking Other Earths: the Search for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets
• August 2004, 2005 Annual Issue, The High Energy Zoo: A Tour of Killer Objects in Space
• December 2001, Cover story: Launching a Caravan to Mars: America’s aggressive Mars exploration program
• October 2001, Cover story: Heart of Darkness: the Center of the Milky Way
• September 2001, A Square Dance in Space: the center of a globular cluster
• June 2001, Cover story: Inside-Out Cosmology: the Astronomy of Physics
• May 2001, Cover story: Seeing with X-Ray Eyes: Chandra’s First Discoveries
• May 2001, NEAR-Shoemaker Scores a Touchdown
• May 2000, Speed Matters
• May 2000, NEAR Arrives Right on Target
• February 2000, Scoping out a Monster Star: Eta Carinae
• November 1999, When Disaster Strikes
• February 1999, Mashed Potatoes and Ice Cream Sundaes
• November 1998, Cover story: Into the Malstrom: a Visit to the Crab Nebula
• April 1997, When Neutron Stars Collide
• March 1995, Polaris, the Code-Blue Star

BBC Sky At Night

• May 2009, Light from the Unknown

The Federalist

• June 5, 2019, Trump’s Promising New Space Plan Won’t Work Without Cutting The Pork
• October 15, 2018, Congress Needs To Stop Pouring Money Into NASA’s Contractor Black Hole
• July 11, 2017, What You Need To Know About The Space Law Congress Is Considering
• April 17, 2017: How President Trump Could Jumpstart Space Settlements

Fortune

• October 1993, Shelf Lives and Videotape

Ideas On Liberty

• June 1994, By Any Means Necessary?
• March 1994, Our Own Mad Clockwork
• January 1994, A Level Playing Field
• January 1993, Finding a Job
• August 1992, Three’s a Crowd
• June 1992, Saying Yes
• May 1992, Street Performers and the Social Contract
• April 1992, New York’s War Against the Vans
• March 1992, Czechoslovakia on the Hudson

Immersed

• August 1996, The World in a Jar

Invention And Technology

• October 2002, More Light, the Story Behind Today’s Monster Telescopes
• October 2001, Cover Story: Docking in Space: How the Gemini Astronauts Made It Happen
• October 2000, Telstar and the Birth of the Communications Satellite
• December 1998, Bathtub in the Sky
• October 1998, Log Flume
• March 1998, How to Fly Without a Plane

Muse

• April 2002, Weightlessness!
• April 2002, To the Moon and Back: the Flight of Apollo 11

National Interest

• March 29, 2017, Private Space Wins the Race

Natural History

• April 2004, No-Fly Zone: Birds in Space
• March 2004, Deep Impressions: The Core of the Earth

Oxford American

• August 2010, A New Colonial Age

Page 99 Test

• May 2008, Web essay, May 25, 2008 posting

Return to the Moon: A Collection of Essays

• January 2005, Brave New World?

Santa Clara Magazine

• Spring 2016, Let There Be Light. Winner of the MAGGIE Award for best magazine profile or interview in 2016.

Science

• May 2009, Biologists Struggle to Solve Bat Deaths

ScienceNow

• May 2009, Sun’s Behavior Flummoxes Solar Scientists

Sciscoop

• May 2004, Web Interview: May 19, 2004 posting of Sciscoop Interview

Sky And Telescope

• August 2015, Cover story: Budget Scramble at Kitt Peak
• January 2015, Cover story: Flawed Giants
• November 2014, Cover story: Spider Webs in Space
• March 2014, How to build the Giant Magellan Telescope
• October 2013, Cover story: The Great Supernova Race
• April 2013, Cover story: Exploring Caves in Space
• October 2012, The Great Galactic Travelers
• March 2012, Cover story: Finding the Sun’s lost nursery
• March 2011, Cover story: Astronomy’s Crystal Ball
• October 2009, Become a Super Amateur: Amateurs astronomers do original research
• August 2009, cover story, What is Wrong With the Sun?
• April 2009, Cosmic Cataclysms: The Merger of Supermassive Black Holes
• November 1997, Explorers of the Unknown

Stardate

• December 2009, Looking Way Out There From Way Out There: The Future of Space Astronomy
• April 2009, Understanding Beta Lyrae: A Very Messy Star Seen for the First Time
• August 1999, Cover Story: Sun Up, the Coming Solar Maximum
• December 1998, Martian Invasion
• December 1998, More Delays Likely for International Space Station
• October 1997, Next Stop: Saturn and the Moon
• August 1997, Cover Story: The Search for the Heliosphere

The Sciences

• March 2002, (Update Magazine) Cover Story: Final Descent, NEAR’s Mission to Eros
• October 2000, Lost City, the archaeology on Jamestown Island
• January 2000, There She Blows, co-winner of the David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism
• August 1999, This is the Way the World Ended
• December 1998, Photo Finish
• April 1998, On a Clear Day you Can See Forever
• April 1998, Hard Rain
• December 1997, Silent Springs
• October 1997, Sahel of a Trip
• August 1997, Just Say Nyet!
• August 1997, Twinkle, Twinkle
• June 1997, Galactic Garbos
• April 1997, An Accomodating Comet
• April 1997, Moon Rivers
• February 1997, Stormy Weather
• October 1996, The Rainbow’s Not Enough
• August 1996, Beautiful Streamers
• June 1996, First Light
• April 1996, Telescopic Vision
• February 1996, The Shadow Boxer
• August 1995, Harvest Moon
• April 1995, The Hubble Inconstant
• December 1994, Five Million Years of Solitude
• October 1994, Circle Games
• August 1994, The Sun Factor
• June 1994, No Place Like Home
• April 1994, Stellar Vision
• February 1994, Computer Ear
• October 1993, Shelf Lives and Videotape
• August 1990, Dark Passage

USA Today

• September 2003, Op-Ed: Say no to NASA, yes to private companies

Wall Street Journal

• August 2013, No liftoff for these space flights of fancy
• September 1998, Are the Russians out to Launch or out to Lunch?
• July 1997, Lost in Space

Wired

• October 2005, Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery Unraveled

Various Published Cave Exploration Articles

• December 2016, Chiricahua Crystal Cave, Monograph #1 of the Underground Conservancy
• October 2015, Breathing Cave, Monograph #1 of the Virginia Speleological Survey
• March 2011, The Survey of Cass Cave, Monograph #4 of the West Virginia Speleological Survey
• June 2009, The Cassell Cave Project, Monograph #3 of the West Virginia Speleological Survey
• December 2004, The Discovery of Pearl Harbor Passage in Memorial Day Cave, The Potomac Speleology Club website
• January 2000, A Historic Review of the First Cassell Cave Survey,, The Potomac Caver
• September 1996, Flood in McFails Cave, New York, The Northeastern Caver
• June 1993, The Lightweight Simple Knots System, Nylon Highway
• December 1991, The Geology of Brown’s Depression: Predicting a Cave Discovery, Met Grotto News
• September 1991, A Journey into Dreamland, Mapping in McFails Cave, The Northeastern Caver
• March 1991, A Short Stroll to Asia Dome, Exploration/Mapping in McFails Cave, The Northeastern Caver
• December 1989, A Course in Caving Single Rope Techniques, Met Grotto News
• October 1989, Beyond The End, Exploration/Mapping in McFails Cave, The Northeastern Caver
• May 1989, Kingston Delaware Mine, Survey and Map, Met Grotto News
• July 1986, Discovery and Mapping of Here Today Cave, Part 2 Met Grotto News
• May 1986, Discovery and Mapping of Here Today Cave, Part 1, Met Grotto News