So pleased to see Orrery on this list.
1 Day to Launch
Here is Countdown Poem #1 read by Mark Wolverton, author of The Depths of Space: The Story of the Pioneer Planetary Probes
CBC Daybreak North Interview
Thank you CBC’s Daybreak North for this interview on Orrery.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-109-daybreak-north/clip/15798538-poems-space-probe
2 Days to Launch
Here is Countdown Poem #2 read by scientist and host of CBC’s Quirks and Quarks, Bob McDonald.
3 Days to Launch
Here is Countdown Poem #3 read by Montreal poet and translator Erin Moure who reads the poem first in English and then translates the poem into Galician and reads that version too.
Marrow Reviews
Thank you Catherine Owen for reviewing Orrery.
4 Days to Launch
Here is Countdown Poem #4 read by Wayne Sawchuk, conservationist and advocate of the Muskwa-Kechika wilderness area in BC’s Northern Rockies, reading from his wilderness cabin at Mayfield Lake.
5 Days to Launch
Here is Countdown Poem #5 read by American science writer Dava Sobel who worked as science writer in the Cornell University news bureau in the Pioneer days and interviewed both Carl Sagan and Frank Drake about the image on the Pioneer 10 plaque. Dava also possesses a rare copy of the plaque, which cameos in this video.
6 Days to Launch
6 days to the launch of Orrery. Here is Countdown Poem #6 read by Dr. Matthew Shindell, poet and curator of planetary science and exploration at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
7 Days to Launch
7 days to the launch of Orrery. Here is Countdown Poem 7, read by National Space Institute member Charles Kux-Kardos.