Mark In Space
@markoc60.bsky.social
Always off somewhere in space. Author of J. Allen Hynek bio THE CLOSE ENCOUNTERS MAN & upcoming THE YEAR SCIENCE CHANGED EVERYTHING (5/6/2025), Writer for STAR TREK: TNG & DS9, including DS9 fan favorite "WHO MOURNS FOR MORN?" Proud WGA member.
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My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
January 3, 2026 at 11:38 AM
My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
Ten years ago today I was on an Antarctic cruise with my siblings. We were privileged to be with our dad as he fulfilled his life's dream and set foot on the the last of the 7 continents. It was the adventure of a lifetime, and a fantastic experience to share with my family!
December 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Ten years ago today I was on an Antarctic cruise with my siblings. We were privileged to be with our dad as he fulfilled his life's dream and set foot on the the last of the 7 continents. It was the adventure of a lifetime, and a fantastic experience to share with my family!
1/ Before there was Disclosure Day...
there was Dr. J. Allen Hynek's work on Project Blue Book, his development of the Close Encounters UFO terminology, & his involvement with Steven Spielberg's blockbuster 1977 UFO movie. You can read about it in my book "The Close Encounters Man".
there was Dr. J. Allen Hynek's work on Project Blue Book, his development of the Close Encounters UFO terminology, & his involvement with Steven Spielberg's blockbuster 1977 UFO movie. You can read about it in my book "The Close Encounters Man".
The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs – A Biography of the Astronomer Who Inspired Steven Spielberg's Film
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December 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
1/ Before there was Disclosure Day...
there was Dr. J. Allen Hynek's work on Project Blue Book, his development of the Close Encounters UFO terminology, & his involvement with Steven Spielberg's blockbuster 1977 UFO movie. You can read about it in my book "The Close Encounters Man".
there was Dr. J. Allen Hynek's work on Project Blue Book, his development of the Close Encounters UFO terminology, & his involvement with Steven Spielberg's blockbuster 1977 UFO movie. You can read about it in my book "The Close Encounters Man".
Put some tasty UFO and IGY reading under your Christmas tree this year! Link to my website www.markoconnell.info to see where to buy my two books. I'd prefer you buy them at your local indie bookstore, but chain stores are fine too!
December 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Put some tasty UFO and IGY reading under your Christmas tree this year! Link to my website www.markoconnell.info to see where to buy my two books. I'd prefer you buy them at your local indie bookstore, but chain stores are fine too!
Today, December 6th, is my birthday! On this day I was "reborn" after surviving my bone marrow transplant and restaging my immune system. I have endless gratitude to all the family, friends, nurses and doctors who got me through it all. To celebrate I went out on a donut run!
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Today, December 6th, is my birthday! On this day I was "reborn" after surviving my bone marrow transplant and restaging my immune system. I have endless gratitude to all the family, friends, nurses and doctors who got me through it all. To celebrate I went out on a donut run!
Today, December 6th, is my birthday! On this day I was "reborn" after surviving my bone marrow transplant and restaging my immune system. I have endless gratitude to all the family, friends, nurses and doctors who got me through it all. To celebrate I went out on a donut run!
December 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Today, December 6th, is my birthday! On this day I was "reborn" after surviving my bone marrow transplant and restaging my immune system. I have endless gratitude to all the family, friends, nurses and doctors who got me through it all. To celebrate I went out on a donut run!
I had a great time this weekend at the Wisconsin Book Festival talking about my new book, "The Year Science Changed Everything." Thanks to everyone at UW-Madison and the National Science Foundation's US Ice Drilling Program for making this possible!
October 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I had a great time this weekend at the Wisconsin Book Festival talking about my new book, "The Year Science Changed Everything." Thanks to everyone at UW-Madison and the National Science Foundation's US Ice Drilling Program for making this possible!
All true!
#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks
I agree with every single word of this. He is a putrid stain on America.
I agree with every single word of this. He is a putrid stain on America.
August 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
All true!
I just got a fundraising email from James Carville. James fucking Carville?? Are you shitting me, Democratic Party? That hopeless, pompous fuck up is still on the team??
I didn't contribute and I unsubscribed. This is a real problem for you.
I didn't contribute and I unsubscribed. This is a real problem for you.
August 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I just got a fundraising email from James Carville. James fucking Carville?? Are you shitting me, Democratic Party? That hopeless, pompous fuck up is still on the team??
I didn't contribute and I unsubscribed. This is a real problem for you.
I didn't contribute and I unsubscribed. This is a real problem for you.
1/ I'm having a real metaphysical moment here... At my agent's suggestion I ran my new book,THE YEAR SCIENCE CHANGED EVERYTHING, through an AI tool (to sell more books, you know), & the result is kind of fascinating, but kind of weird. I am still processing...
August 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
1/ I'm having a real metaphysical moment here... At my agent's suggestion I ran my new book,THE YEAR SCIENCE CHANGED EVERYTHING, through an AI tool (to sell more books, you know), & the result is kind of fascinating, but kind of weird. I am still processing...
I watch bad movies then read up on them to see what made them so bad. Lately I've noticed a weird trend where reviewers will write that a movie bombed, then add that, "in recent years, however, the film has developed a cult following." I call BS on the crap movie cults.
July 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I watch bad movies then read up on them to see what made them so bad. Lately I've noticed a weird trend where reviewers will write that a movie bombed, then add that, "in recent years, however, the film has developed a cult following." I call BS on the crap movie cults.
Today marks 15 years of marriage with this beautiful soul. How did I get so lucky?
July 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Today marks 15 years of marriage with this beautiful soul. How did I get so lucky?
This 4th of July seemed like a good day for Monica & me to tour the beautiful grounds of the Carter Center here in Atlanta and pay our respects to one of the most decent, honorable and admirable presidents we've ever had.
July 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This 4th of July seemed like a good day for Monica & me to tour the beautiful grounds of the Carter Center here in Atlanta and pay our respects to one of the most decent, honorable and admirable presidents we've ever had.
This 4th of July seemed like a good day for Monica & me to tour the beautiful grounds of the Carter Center here in Atlanta and pay our respects to one of the most decent, honorable and admirable presidents we've ever had.
July 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This 4th of July seemed like a good day for Monica & me to tour the beautiful grounds of the Carter Center here in Atlanta and pay our respects to one of the most decent, honorable and admirable presidents we've ever had.
Lately I've been preoccupied with my second book "The Year Science Changed Everything," so it was nice to see my first book at the local bookstore yesterday, displayed "cover out"!
www.markoconnell.info
www.markoconnell.info
July 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Lately I've been preoccupied with my second book "The Year Science Changed Everything," so it was nice to see my first book at the local bookstore yesterday, displayed "cover out"!
www.markoconnell.info
www.markoconnell.info
Maybe we should just give him the Nobel Prize and he'll go away.
June 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Maybe we should just give him the Nobel Prize and he'll go away.
1/ I love that once you're part of the Star Trek family, you're in forever! I just got an invitation from the good folks at the Treksperts Briefing Room podcast to talk about one of the Deep Space 9 episodes I wrote way back in the 1990s & I can't wait. It never gets boring!
TREKSPERTS BRIEFING ROOM: AN INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS PODCAST
TV Reviews Podcast · Updated Weekly · From the creators of the hit INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS podcast comes TREKSPERTS BRIEFING ROOM with hosts LISA KLINK (writer, Star Trek: Voyager) and PETER HOLMSTROM (...
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June 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1/ I love that once you're part of the Star Trek family, you're in forever! I just got an invitation from the good folks at the Treksperts Briefing Room podcast to talk about one of the Deep Space 9 episodes I wrote way back in the 1990s & I can't wait. It never gets boring!
1/ My interview on Beth Mund's "Casual Space" podcast is up! On this visit we talk about "The Year Science Changed Everything," my new book about the International Geophysical Year of 1957 and how it still benefits us every day.
June 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
1/ My interview on Beth Mund's "Casual Space" podcast is up! On this visit we talk about "The Year Science Changed Everything," my new book about the International Geophysical Year of 1957 and how it still benefits us every day.
1/ Really bizarre day: started with a bumpy interview about my new science history book, then news that my Ancient Aliens episode premieres tonight, only to have that news retracted by Discover...
www.bethmund.com/casual-space...
www.bethmund.com/casual-space...
June 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
1/ Really bizarre day: started with a bumpy interview about my new science history book, then news that my Ancient Aliens episode premieres tonight, only to have that news retracted by Discover...
www.bethmund.com/casual-space...
www.bethmund.com/casual-space...
1/ Really bizarre day: started with a bumpy interview about my new science history book, then news that my Ancient Aliens episode premieres tonight, only to have that news retracted by Discover...
www.bethmund.com/casual-space...
www.bethmund.com/casual-space...
www.bethmund.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
1/ Really bizarre day: started with a bumpy interview about my new science history book, then news that my Ancient Aliens episode premieres tonight, only to have that news retracted by Discover...
www.bethmund.com/casual-space...
www.bethmund.com/casual-space...
I'm psyched that I'll be giving a talk about my new book "The Year Science Changed Everything" at the Wisconsin Book Festival/Science Festival in Madison this October. I did this event when my first book came out and I loved it--the second time should be twice as fun!
www.wisconsinbookfestival.org
www.wisconsinbookfestival.org
June 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I'm psyched that I'll be giving a talk about my new book "The Year Science Changed Everything" at the Wisconsin Book Festival/Science Festival in Madison this October. I did this event when my first book came out and I loved it--the second time should be twice as fun!
www.wisconsinbookfestival.org
www.wisconsinbookfestival.org
I recently did a fun interview about my new book, "The Year Science Changed Everything," with the ever-inspiring Beth Mund for her Casual Space podcast. We covered a lot of ground and had a lot of fun, and I can't wait for our talk to get posted!
Watch This Space!
www.bethmund.com/podcast
Watch This Space!
www.bethmund.com/podcast
May 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I recently did a fun interview about my new book, "The Year Science Changed Everything," with the ever-inspiring Beth Mund for her Casual Space podcast. We covered a lot of ground and had a lot of fun, and I can't wait for our talk to get posted!
Watch This Space!
www.bethmund.com/podcast
Watch This Space!
www.bethmund.com/podcast
I had a wonderful birthday dinner with Monica last night at Kimball House in Decatur, GA.
May 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I had a wonderful birthday dinner with Monica last night at Kimball House in Decatur, GA.
Want to save a buck and a half? My new book, The Year Science Changed Everything, is available as an ebook for $1.50 less than the hardcover version:
www.amazon.com/Year-Science...
Of course, if you prefer it in hardcover, we can do that too:
www.amazon.com/Year-Science...
www.amazon.com/Year-Science...
Of course, if you prefer it in hardcover, we can do that too:
www.amazon.com/Year-Science...
The Year Science Changed Everything: 1957's International Geophysical Year and the Future of Our Planet
The Year Science Changed Everything: 1957's International Geophysical Year and the Future of Our Planet - Kindle edition by O'Connell, Mark. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Year Science Changed Everything: 1957's International Geophysical Year and the Future of Our Planet.
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May 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Want to save a buck and a half? My new book, The Year Science Changed Everything, is available as an ebook for $1.50 less than the hardcover version:
www.amazon.com/Year-Science...
Of course, if you prefer it in hardcover, we can do that too:
www.amazon.com/Year-Science...
www.amazon.com/Year-Science...
Of course, if you prefer it in hardcover, we can do that too:
www.amazon.com/Year-Science...
1/ Because people ask, my book The Year Science Changed Everything was in part inspired by Donald Fagen's 1982 hit song "IGY"
IGY stands for International Geophysical Year, & Fagen imagines it as a future utopia where we "trust machines to make big decisions," cities are powered by the sun...
IGY stands for International Geophysical Year, & Fagen imagines it as a future utopia where we "trust machines to make big decisions," cities are powered by the sun...
May 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
1/ Because people ask, my book The Year Science Changed Everything was in part inspired by Donald Fagen's 1982 hit song "IGY"
IGY stands for International Geophysical Year, & Fagen imagines it as a future utopia where we "trust machines to make big decisions," cities are powered by the sun...
IGY stands for International Geophysical Year, & Fagen imagines it as a future utopia where we "trust machines to make big decisions," cities are powered by the sun...