THE HISTORY OF SEX IN SPACE Looking back, it is strange to realise just how long man - and woman of course, had to wait for the first member (no pun intended) of the '100 Mile High Club'. Not that the sex act had to be performed at that specific altitude - the title was merely the natural extension of the much older 'Mile High Club', which no doubt by now h...
I took an excursion from Cairns out to the Great Barrier Reef for a day. This is what happened. The Reef is amazing. The variety of coral is huge. Corals that look like giant brains, fans, tree branches, blue boulders, flowers and many more. One school of 20 or so silver fish, each about a foot long, is swimming the same way as me and I fall into the group,...
Dr. Wells lay in her improvised seat aboard the Soyuz capsule grinning from ear to ear. It had taken her years to get to this: the college work, application to the space program, the astronaut training. And now here she was, strapped into position aboard the Soyuz which had just docked with the International Space Station. As the hatch opened, the three oth...
Chapter One The Moon - 3749 C.E. "So, remind me," requested the Interplanetary Union's Minister for External Affairs. "How have we managed to commit ourselves to the horrendous expense of this mission?" "Do you mean the Alpha Project, sir?" asked Permanent Secretary Alfredo Miskiewicz from his office at Mare Cognitum on the Moon. "Whatever it's called n...
Chapter Fifteen Intrepid - 3756 C.E. It was now over a month since the Intrepid plunged into the Anomaly and Paul was no more relaxed about it than he was before despite Beatrice's constant reassurances. What troubled him most wasn't just what was going to happen to him now that he was inside the Anomaly but whether he'd ever return to the universe he came...
You are the lone pilot too the S.S. Strongarm, a lightspeed fast exploratory vessel meant for deep space expeditions and you hava very important mission. About a year ago, the First Galactic Power, or the FGP, recorded an unexplainable anomoly far beyond the mapped regions of space. They don't know what it is or why it's happening, but it seems to be emanati...
Chapter Nineteen The Moon - 3755 C.E. "I need to speak to you privately," said Oxana Petrovna Korolyov. Brigadier Svenssen was understandably alarmed. What could this woman possibly want? Why would a Mission Control scientist need to talk to him? His immediate anxiety was that it might be her way of suggesting that they have sex. There were colonies in the...
Chapter One Intrepid - 3754 C.E. A space ship. One of the largest in the solar system. Twelve kilometres long. Two kilometres in diameter. A wonder of 32nd Century Technology. Perhaps two thirds of the ship's volume was dedicated to the engine and fully ninety percent, whether in the passengers' segments or in the engine rooms, was composed of water. This...
Space Station Sigma was one of three science outposts on the edge of space. The year is 3012 and mankind has stretched far across the stars - without encountering any other intelligent races. Bacteria and single cell organisms have been found, the promise of intelligent life is still discuses, but until 32 minutes ago mankind was not sure if it alone. The e...
The small tug bumped to a stop on the rocky surface. Three small rocket driven grapples drove into the surface anchoring the vessel to the speeding rock. It seemed small in the dark vastness of outer space. After a short period of time, the airlock of the craft opened. It was eerie in the loneliness all around. Then there was a rush of air that dissipated in...