Gerald Nordley is a consulting astronautical engineer and writer with degrees in physics and systems management and a retired USAF officer with experience in spacecraft operations and engineering, With over a hundred publications of nonfiction and fiction, his writing won four "Anlab" readers' awards and nominations for both a Hugo and Nebula award. His stories focus on the human experience in scientifically plausible futures, with many of them in astronomical settings. The latest is "Titan of Chaos" in Life Beyond Us. Gerald was born in Minneapolis, lives in Sunnyvale CA with his wife Gayle Wiesner, and has three adult children and one grandchild. His two novels and five story collections are available from Brief Candle Press. See: www.gdnordley.com.
Sessions in which G. David Nordley participates
Saturday 13 February, 2021
Despite blowing up prototypes, SpaceX is making amazing progress toward reusable interplanetary spacecraft with hundred ton payloads. While the details change every day, it's time to review where they are and think about what this means for the not very distant future and and the expansion of our "playground" for real.
Sunday 14 February, 2021
How and How Long will it take to get from here to there in space? G. David Nordley will provide some rules of thumb for constructing timelines that involve interplanetary and interstellar journeys. Along the way, he will point out where conventional wisdom is seriously oversimplified in a conservative way, and where one may need to make some hard choices between what is possible and what one might want for a plot.
Sessions in which G. David Nordley attends
Sunday 14 February, 2021
Since the dawn of the Satellite age we've been putting man made things into space, particularly around Earth.How much junk is out there? How much of it is useful? How much isn't useful? What is it used for?