{"id":24815,"date":"2010-07-13T19:02:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/launch-pad-puts-the-%e2%80%9csci%e2%80%9d-in-sci-fi-storytellers-science-not-fiction\/"},"modified":"2010-07-13T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T19:02:19","slug":"launch-pad-puts-the-%e2%80%9csci%e2%80%9d-in-sci-fi-storytellers-science-not-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/launch-pad-puts-the-%e2%80%9csci%e2%80%9d-in-sci-fi-storytellers-science-not-fiction.php","title":{"rendered":"Launch Pad Puts the \u201cSci\u201d in Sci-Fi Storytellers | Science Not Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where do budding, even experienced, science-fiction writers learn about the science behind the science fiction? Going back to school and getting a university degree in a scientific discipline is an option, but that’s going to take quite a while. You could short-circuit the process by spending a week at Launch Pad<\/a> at the University of Wyoming!<\/p>

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Launch Pad 2010 Attendees<\/p>

Launch Pad is a free, NASA-funded workshop for established writers held in beautiful high-altitude Laramie, Wyoming. Launch Pad aims to provide a “crash course” for the attendees in modern astronomy science through guest lectures, and observation through the University of Wyoming’s professional telescopes.<\/p><\/blockquote>

The workshop’s mission is to:<\/p>

…teach writers of all types about modern science, primarily astronomy, and in turn reach their audiences. We hope to both educate the public and reach the next generation of scientists.<\/p><\/blockquote>

<\/span>The person who runs Launch Pad, Mike Brotherton<\/a>, is a wizard at using sci-fi as a vehicle to teach actual science (or, in his own words, he’s a wizard at funding his own science-fiction habit). A few years ago he received NSF funding to compile ”Diamonds in the Sky<\/a>” — an anthology of hard science-fiction stories that also can be used by physics and astronomy teachers as a vehicle to teach real science. Some of the stories are quite good and worth the read. Perhaps we’ll see “Diamonds in the Sky II” in the not-too-distant future, populated with stories from former Launch Pad attendees!<\/p>

Launch Pad 2011 and 2012 are funded, and there’s still time to apply for next year!<\/p>

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