It's All About Speed

What happens when you attempt to land a small spacecraft on Ganymede, and why bother with it at all ?

Read my poem, "Descent to Ganymede," in issue 264 of Galaxy Science Fiction, that just dropped. 

It's a fabulous issue, full of gorgeous illustrations, poetry, short stories and interviews, some of them projecting AI use into the future (including mine).

The landing I describe there is all poetic license, it would not work out in real life, but when writing it, I've drawn upon my experience as an avionics engineer. 

It was a glamorous time in my life, filled with oleo switches, thrust reversers, pitot tubes, stall protection, inertial reference systems (IRS) alignment, 2° nose-up and flaps at 26°.

I've always knew writing was my only passion, but these were years when something else besides literature captured my imagination: speed. 

If you've ever watched the clouds during take-off and landing, you know what I mean.

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Link to Issue 264 of Galaxy Science Fiction

Irina Moga is a Canadian writer, author of six poetry collections, and the winner of the 2022 Dina Sahyouni literary prize (France). She is a member of The Writers' Union of Canada. Web: http://www.irinamoga.com

"Quantum," her latest poetry collection can be found here: https://www.amazon.ca/Quantum-Irina-Moga/dp/1998441288/

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