Forgive the self-promotion but...I'm happy to say that the American Astronautical Society announced a few days ago that The Visioneers was chosen as the recipient of the 2012 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature. According to the AAS, the award, named for NASA’s first historian, recognizes "outstanding books which advance public understanding of astronautics through originality, scholarship and readability." So - pretty cool.And, in case you want to see the actual letter --

It's the end of the teaching quarter here at UCSB so my blogging time is curtailed...I hope to get Leaping Robot up and jumping soon enough though. Thanks for reading.