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Catherine L. Newell’s Destined for the Stars: Faith, the Future, and America’s Final Frontier was published in 2019, but I only just now noticed it. That is a little embarrassing, because the title alone should have caug...

","url":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/destined-for-the-stars%E2%80%94and-destined-to-explore","title":"Destined for the Stars—and Destined to Explore","summary":"Catherine L. Newell’s Destined for the Stars: Faith, the Future, and America’s Final Frontier was published in 2019, but I only just now noticed it. That is a little embarrassing, because the title alone should have caug...","date_modified":"2026-06-08T12:00:16Z"},{"id":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/destined-to-explore-second-edition","html_content":"

I just published the second edition Destined to Explore. I fixed some formatting issues, but, more importantly, I added a new chapter. It is titled \"Electricity and Magnetism.\" While the new chapter is a good fit for thi...

","url":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/destined-to-explore-second-edition","title":"Destined to Explore, Second Edition","summary":"I just published the second edition Destined to Explore. I fixed some formatting issues, but, more importantly, I added a new chapter. It is titled \"Electricity and Magnetism.\" While the new chapter is a good fit for thi...","date_modified":"2026-06-07T11:49:41Z"},{"id":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/solar-eclipse","html_content":"

We had gathered in the field\nwith paper glasses, folding chairs,\nand all the little instruments\nby which we try to make wonder safe.

","url":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/solar-eclipse","title":"Solar Eclipse","summary":"We had gathered in the field\nwith paper glasses, folding chairs,\nand all the little instruments\nby which we try to make wonder safe.","date_modified":"2026-05-22T12:27:54Z"},{"id":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/meteor-shower","html_content":"

I had gone outside for ordinary reasons—\nto cool my thoughts,\nto stand a while beneath the dark,\nto let the house release me\nfrom its walls.

","url":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/meteor-shower","title":"Meteor Shower","summary":"I had gone outside for ordinary reasons—\nto cool my thoughts,\nto stand a while beneath the dark,\nto let the house release me\nfrom its walls.","date_modified":"2026-05-21T12:12:13Z"},{"id":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/aurorae","html_content":"

I went north expecting darkness—\nthe clean, hard dark\nof snowfields and pines,\nthe kind that gathers quietly\nat the edge of the world.

","url":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/aurorae","title":"Aurorae","summary":"I went north expecting darkness—\nthe clean, hard dark\nof snowfields and pines,\nthe kind that gathers quietly\nat the edge of the world.","date_modified":"2026-05-20T11:58:29Z"},{"id":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/lightning","html_content":"

I was watching the storm arrive\nwith the dull obedience\nof a man counting weather—

","url":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/lightning","title":"Lightning","summary":"I was watching the storm arrive\nwith the dull obedience\nof a man counting weather—","date_modified":"2026-05-19T12:05:35Z"},{"id":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/moonless","html_content":"

I went out after the lamps were dark,\nafter the house had folded itself\ninto sleep,

","url":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/moonless","title":"Moonless","summary":"I went out after the lamps were dark,\nafter the house had folded itself\ninto sleep,","date_modified":"2026-05-18T11:52:59Z"},{"id":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/the-rainbow","html_content":"

I was walking home beneath a troubled sky,\npast puddles, wires, rooftops,\nthe wet dark backs of leaves,

","url":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/the-rainbow","title":"The Rainbow","summary":"I was walking home beneath a troubled sky,\npast puddles, wires, rooftops,\nthe wet dark backs of leaves,","date_modified":"2026-05-17T17:52:48Z"},{"id":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/aesthetic-arrest","html_content":"

I was hurrying under the ordinary sky,\nmy mind ahead of me,\nalready turning corners\nmy feet had not yet reached,

","url":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/aesthetic-arrest","title":"Aesthetic Arrest","summary":"I was hurrying under the ordinary sky,\nmy mind ahead of me,\nalready turning corners\nmy feet had not yet reached,","date_modified":"2026-05-16T18:36:35Z"},{"id":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/destined-to-explore-the-sequel-to-the-privileged-planet","html_content":"

In 2004, Jay Richards and I published The Privileged Planet. We argued that the same conditions that make Earth habitable also make it ideal for seeing the universe — that habitability and discoverability are coupled. A ...

","url":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/destined-to-explore-the-sequel-to-the-privileged-planet","title":"Destined to Explore: the Sequel to The Privileged Planet","summary":"In 2004, Jay Richards and I published The Privileged Planet. We argued that the same conditions that make Earth habitable also make it ideal for seeing the universe — that habitability and discoverability are coupled. A ...","date_modified":"2026-05-12T00:13:33Z"},{"id":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/the-double-edged-torch","html_content":"

There is a strange symmetry at the heart of humanity’s spacefaring future. The two technologies most likely to carry us to the stars are also the two most likely to keep us from getting there. Nuclear energy, in both its...

","url":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/the-double-edged-torch","title":"The Double-Edged Torch","summary":"There is a strange symmetry at the heart of humanity’s spacefaring future. The two technologies most likely to carry us to the stars are also the two most likely to keep us from getting there. Nuclear energy, in both its...","date_modified":"2026-04-05T21:21:26Z"},{"id":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/fifty-three-years-later-were-going-back","html_content":"

One night in December 1972, I stayed up late outside our home in Miami, Florida. I was nine years old. To the north, above the low horizon, a point of light was rising—brightening, reddening, drawing a streak across the ...

","url":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/fifty-three-years-later-were-going-back","title":"Fifty-three Years Later, We're Going Back","summary":"One night in December 1972, I stayed up late outside our home in Miami, Florida. I was nine years old. To the north, above the low horizon, a point of light was rising—brightening, reddening, drawing a streak across the ...","date_modified":"2026-03-29T19:40:48Z"},{"id":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/one-hundred-years-above-the-cabbage-patch","html_content":"

On March 16, 1926, a small rocket rose from a Massachusetts farm and changed the future. A century later, Robert Goddard’s brief flight still points toward a larger question: why did the road to the stars open when it di...

","url":"https://destinedtoexplore.space/blog/f/one-hundred-years-above-the-cabbage-patch","title":"One Hundred Years Above the Cabbage Patch","summary":"On March 16, 1926, a small rocket rose from a Massachusetts farm and changed the future. A century later, Robert Goddard’s brief flight still points toward a larger question: why did the road to the stars open when it di...","date_modified":"2026-03-06T01:22:26Z"}]}