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H. G. Wells; Mars; David Bowie; NASA

“Life on Mars?”: That is the question for David Bowie, H. G. Wells, and NASA

September 20, 2016 - Harry Ransom Center

Responding to news of the singer’s passing in January 2016, the official NASA twitter account tweeted “Rest in peace, David Bowie. ‘And the stars look very different today.’” For Bowie, one of humankind’s hitherto unanswered questions was [Read more…] about “Life on Mars?”: That is the question for David Bowie, H. G. Wells, and NASA

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: H. G. Wells; Mars; David Bowie; NASA, Jeff Wayne, Mars, Peter Beck, Research, science fiction, Steven Spielberg and beyond, The War of the Worlds: from H. G. Wells to Orson Welles, War of the Worlds

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