Robert Godwin, Apogee Books, "Invading Mars", Small Tent, Friday 11:00 a.m., is the editor of the world's number one publisher of Space books; creating an average of one new space book a month. Apogee Books has garnered contracts to document aspects of space history from both NASA and the Russian space corporation Energia.
Robert works regularly with many of the world's leading space advocacy groups including The National Space Society, The Space Frontier Foundation, The Mars Society, The X-Prize Foundation, The British Interplanetary Society, The Planetary Society, Space Day and many more. Revenues from book sales have been donated to support an asteroid impact research project called The Watch, which led to Apogee Books sponsoring a U.S. Senate round-table on the subject of catastrophic impacts. The round-table raised political awareness on the subject and assisted in more long-term funding for asteroid research.
In 1898 an American astronomer decided that it would be a good idea to send an expedition to the Moon before going on to Mars. He also suggested that the Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, would make convenient staging posts before attempting a landing.
It was a work of fiction which has never seen the light of day in its original form since that winter of 1898. Robert will introduce the audience to this lost work of genius which involves a whole range of amazing predictions, including asteroid mining and the birth of the alien abduction story.
In the second half of his presentation he will discuss the role of the space advocate and how works of fiction and dramatizations have led to extraordinary things in the history of space exploration. He will conclude by showing unique film of the Apollo moon landings taken from his award-winning books.
Apogee Hospitality Tent: Chat with Robert or one of the other Apogee Books representatives at their trailer site in the vendor area. Thumb through one of the books that will be on display or take in a one of the many "space flicks" that will be shown during the weekend.
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