List: Tales of the G.S.O. | Curated by Eric Wolf

Feb 29, 2024
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Tales of the G.S.O.Stands for 'Global Space Organization'.
Eric Wolf
Like Saturn, the RevolutionDay 17: Nothing like some life-or-death crisis, Suze my old girl, to make you rethink your lunch order. (Not ‘launch’ order — we’ve done…
Feb 28, 2024
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Feb 28, 2024
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Story #8Keep Jupiter Scary!“What doesn’t kill you,” Baines said, “makes you float in air. That’s how he viewed this planet. It’s mostly hydrogen and helium, and one…
Oct 9, 2023
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Oct 9, 2023
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Sungrazer: A Comet’sTaleThe sun could be useful, Żukówski knew, but at that moment, its radiance was at its minimum. Snow should melt under a sunny sky — on Earth…
Jul 1, 2023
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Jul 1, 2023
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Ceres As A Heart Attack“Those stars, Suzette Kahurangi Bonner, will still be up there in a minute, so could you, please… look at me? Right now? I’m trying to tell…
Apr 1, 2023
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Apr 1, 2023
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Best of the Moon“Let’s face the facts here. It was always going to come down to this, wasn’t it?” Suzi Bonner wasn’t trying to be flippant; naturally, she…
Dec 11, 2022
Dec 11, 2022
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Mercury in BloomShe was determined to catch her death, out there! To her team, that is how it must have appeared. Nothing new, really; people in the…
Mar 20, 2022
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Mar 20, 2022
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A Venus Story“When she is too loud, I simply say: ‘A lua está muito cheia esta noite.’ That seems to quiet her right — oh, now you’ve gone and done it…
Dec 5, 2021
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Dec 5, 2021
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Water in Dry PlacesIzem Mokrani explained his desire to take a vehicle, out into the desert, to his coworker this way: “Because that’s where I intend to set…
Aug 20, 2021
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Aug 20, 2021
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Red BallI don’t like my hand-me-down spacesuit. I don’t expect the Organization to tailor work clothes to employees’ tastes, but at least they…
May 13, 2021
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May 13, 2021
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