Countdown to the Moon

C Stuart Hardwick is a winner of the prestigious Writers of the Future contest and the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award. His work regularly appears in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, as well as Galaxy’s Edge, Forbes.com and Mental Floss, among others.

Website: https://cstuarthardwick.com/

SURVIVING TOMORROW is a collection of 29 stories about survivors
by writers like Neil Gaiman, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Cory Doctorow,
Robert Silverberg, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Andrew Mayne,
Scott Sigler, Orson Scott Card, Alan Dean Foster, A.C. Crispin, and more.
All profits go to providing COVID-19 tests directly to the front lines of this crisis. https://www.survivingtomorrowanthology.com/

Final Frontier: A Sci-fi Celebration of the Indomitable Spirit That Carried Humanity to the Moon
50 years after the moon landings, the commercialization of space travel is finally here, but do we still know how to dream? Final Frontier recalls the heady thrill of the Apollo program and glimpses wonders yet to come. In a dozen uplifting stories by today’s award-winning authors, find humor, tragedy, sacrifice and good old fashioned cussedness—with a healthy dose of optimism.
All that, plus a forward by NASA astronaut Stanley G. Love, a poem in homage to astronaut artist Alan Bean by a former NASA colleague, and a piece by Spider Robinson, inspired by Robert Heinlein and set to music by David Crosby of Crosby, Stills & Nash!

Will Young (a.k.a DeepSkyDude) has been working on lifting people’s views to the heavens, informing their perspective of where we are in the universe, and helping to expand our imagination. His videos on YouTube explain what people should expect when attending a Star Party, the Moon/Venus Occultation in 2015, a meteor impact of the moon during the Lunar Eclipse January 2019, and more. Visit his website, follow him on Twitter,TikTok, and Facebook scribe to his YouTube channel.
Through the Astronomical Society of South East Texas he and a group of volunteers have been reaching out to the Beaumont/Port Author/Orange community to spread the knowledge of space.

Will was able to attend the Artemis Day at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana which commemorated the completion of the core stage for the Artemis 1 mission.

There he learned about NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the surface of the moon in 2024.

This will be our “Christopher Columbus” moment. The 2020s will see routine trips to the moon, and trips further into the solar system. Over the next few decades we will have people living, working, observing, discovering, and thriving in the rest of the solar system.