This website blog (and the book that started it) is all about innovative ways to launch a career in the aerospace or aviation fields Or how to be a so-called rocket scientist. In this month of December, 2022, a major announcement was made. The #dearMoon mission, funded by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa (YZ), announced 8 […]
Introduction from Brett: Here is yet another inspirational example that proves you never know where great people – and great ideas – will come from. In July 2022, I was introduced to Ingrid Rosten in Rancho Cordova, a suburb of Sacramento, California. Ingrid works with entrepreneurs in developing countries to help them launch and grow […]
This month, we took a family vacation to Orlando, Florida. It was a great time, despite the brutal heat and humidity. I’m not used to that! Now I live somewhere with dry heat when it’s hot. Anyway, we planned for a full day at NASA Kennedy Space Center. It is roughly an 80-minute drive away […]
Happy news for anyone who wants to blaze their own trail into a fun and rewarding career in aerospace or aviation! “How To Be a Rocket Scientist: 10 Tips to Enter the Aerospace Field and Launch the Career of Your Dreams” has been republished! In both paperback and ebook formats! Ready for a “reality check” […]
OVERVIEW On September 2, 2021, the first rocket from the space exploration startup company Firefly Aerospace made its first attempt at launch. It was the boldest first rocket launch attempt ever in the history of humankind: to go directly into orbit on the very first try with the first rocket engineered and produced by a […]
Hooray for everyone who wants to bring dreams of living on the moon to children every night for bedtime! The Kickstarter campaign to help bring GOODNIGHT MOON BASE to publication in 2021 has met its crowdfunding goal! My huge THANK YOU and congratulations to everyone who made this possible! Especially my family, close friends, colleagues, […]
The crowdfunding campaign to bring GOODNIGHT MOON BASE into reality is underway! When our daughter and son were little kids, my wife and I enjoyed bedtime every night by reading different stories to them. It included the classic book Goodnight Moon. My hope and dream is that when they become parents themselves, along with other parents and […]
A major reason I wrote and self-published my first book in 2014, How To Be a Rocket Scientist, was to help more people realize their untapped potential and fulfill their dreams for a career in the aerospace or aviation fields. It was geared toward young adults and young professionals. I discovered that it actually found […]
The dearMoon mission contest (which I first wrote about here: Bringing an artist mindset to rocket science with the dearMoon mission) is still underway. Everyone who pre-registered and wanted to continue for a chance to be one of 8 people on the 2023 SpaceX Starship flight around the moon with Yusaka Maezawa (MZ) and his […]
Note from Brett: This is a special and exclusive guest post from Tom Cooke, co-Founder and CEO of Spacely. Two of the major take-aways I want people to understand and appreciate from my book “How To Be a Rocket Scientist” (and by extension this website) is that an entrepreneurial mindset is essential in today’s world. […]
