Tag: backyard rockets

• Munching on Mars Bars

  As a boy, I munched Mars Bars, read Jules Verne, and dreamed of rockets. Decades later, from Sputnik and Apollo to Elon Musk’s Starships, I find myself asking a different question. Mars may be humanity’s next destination, but the most difficult frontier I encountered was never millions of miles away—it was within.

  RMDell’Orfano

  June 18, 2026

  Autobio

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