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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

I was never going to be a rocket scientist. But I found the field that I was blessed to be able to do, and I just put my whole effort into that.

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

Rocket engines generally are simpler than jet engines, not more complicated.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

It seems that 'rocket scientist' is a job category that's here for the long haul, like 'mortician.' But all this activity masks an important point: rockets are not a terribly efficient way to lift things into space.