• First NASA Scientist-Astronaut appointed to their Mars program in 1967 (later cancelled)
• Ph.D. thesis at UC Berkeley on the optical properties of Mars
• later about fifty publications regarding Mars Served on the Cornell faculty with the infamous Carl Sagan 1968-71
• Officer of the AAS Div. of Planetary Sciences and the American Geophysical Union,
• AAAS Fellow, World Innovation Foundation (UK) Fellow
• Served on the faculties of Caltech (1971)
• UC Berkeley (1972)
• Hampshire (1972-75) and Princeton (1975-82)
• University of Philosphophical Research (2002-)
• Senior Congressional Staff for Rep. Morris Udall when he ran for President

Relevant books:

• The Making of an ex-Astronaut, Houghton Mifflin (1970)
• The Fertile Stars, Everest House (1981)
• The New Solar System (with K. Beatty and A. Chaikin), Sky Publishing (1981)
• Project Space Station, Stackpole (1983)
• Mars 1999, Stackpole (1987)
• Exploring Inner and Outer Space, North Atlantic (1989)
• The Second Coming of Science, North Atlantic (1993)
• Miracle in the Void, Kamapua'a (1996)
• Re-Inheriting the Earth, Brian O'Leary (2003)
• The Energy Solution Revolution (2009).

Also several technical volumes were edited during my tenure at Princeton between 1976 and 1982.

Currently a co-creator and faculty member of Montesueños, a retreat center for peace, sustainability, the arts and new science located in the Andes of Ecuador.