Geoffrey Landis to Be Guest Instructor at 2012 Launchpad

August 31, 2011 admin

Geoffrey Landis, award winning author and NASA scientist, will be teaching at the Launchpad astronomy workshop in July 2012. Landis’s novel Mars Crossing won the 2001 Locus Award for Best First Novel, and his short fiction has received Nebula and Hugo awards.

Applications for Launchpad will open on March 1, 2012. The workshop will last one week, and take place in Laramie, Wyoming.

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