She was a multiple Hugo and Nebula award winner — and like Ray Bradbury before her, she now marks the second sci-fi author to have terrain on Mars named after her. Clearly she deserves the honor — being, at one time, a “Hidden Figure” of sci-fi writing, in the early 1970s. That was until, as she put it, she “wrote herself into the genre“.
So we are thrilled to celebrate her, along with the first wheel-tracks now underway and rolling — at the site, on Barsoom overnight. Excellent! The latest, from NASA/JPL — and Mars mission HQ:
…NASA has named the landing site of the agency’s Perseverance rover “Octavia E. Butler Landing,” after the science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. The landing location is marked with a star in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)….
We are grinning ear to ear. Simply… beaming. Be excellent to one another, and encourage all your little ones to… explore, to experiment… and most of all, to dare mighty things!
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