Photo: George Roberts, Official U.S. Air Force (flickr)
An Atlas V evolved expendable launch vehicle carries NASA's Mars Science Laboratory from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Nov. 26, 2011. The lab's Rover Curiosity was scheduled to land on Mars in August 2012.
“We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.”
-Ray Bradbury
Tony Brewer is a poet, sound effects artist, and roller derby announcer. He has two books of poems, The Great American Scapegoat and Little Glove in a Big Hand, and he is the executive director of the Spoken Word Stage at the 4th Street Festival of the Arts in Bloomington, Indiana.
