Winchell Chung

[Orionblamblam]

Metastasizing prostate cancer. This is not good news.

I have terrible news.@nyrath, the creator of the Atomic Rockets website, is in hospital with a life threatening condition.

His contributions to realism in science fiction over the decades have inspired thousands of people and led to so many of the best works you enjoy today. pic.twitter.com/GNs9B7OZXi

— ToughSF (@ToughSf) September 9, 2021

View: https://twitter.com/ToughSf/status/1435987718975197186

I am overwhelmed by all the well wishes from everyone. Thank you all.

But prostate cancer that has metastasized has a very poor prognosis

— Winchell Chung⚛🚀 (@nyrath) September 9, 2021

View: https://twitter.com/nyrath/status/1436010987086286853

 

[dannydale]

Damn.

 

[DWG]

Bugger!

 

[Dilandu]

Oh.

 

[Graham1973]

Not good at all I've always enjoyed looking at the Atomic Rockets website.

 

[chimeric oncogene]

And there goes another legend of hard sci-fi.

 

[starviking]

And there goes another legend of hard sci-fi.

Damn! But I have to add… he’s not gone yet.

 

[archipeppe]

Oh my God that's awful!!

I have got in touch with him a couple of years ago when he included my graduation thesis and subsequent works about lunar lander within his Atomic Rocket....

Landers - Atomic Rockets

www.projectrho.com

 

[Dilandu]

 

[Anderman]

Sad news and he has no hopes if he hands his website to Chris

 

[Foo Fighter]

Very sad indeed, I hope he can find time to be at peace and complete his most important works. With good fortune his doctors can ensure his passing is comfortable and peaceful.

 

[pathology_doc]

Sad news and he has no hopes if he hands his website to Chris

Better that he pass the torch to someone else when he's fit to do so and then has a miracle and stays with us for a while, rather than delay and hope and it suddenly falls into a hole when he dies.

 

[uk 75]

Sometimes you only learn about someone when they are leaving us.
Now I have learnt and share everything written above by those who know Winchell Chung.

 

[publiusr]

I wish I could put that cancer on myself instead...but fate doesn't do deals...

 

[yasotay]

He has done more than many. When he passes (as we all must), he can go knowing he accomplished things that will be remembered and most likely have done good for all.

 

[Michel Van]

I collaborate with him for Atomic Rocket with informations and graphics mostly for Perry Rhodan Hardware.

and for Alternate History story "Eyes turned Skywards" (Winchell Chung was advisor for Authors)
I made this illustration about the First Asian Astronaut on Moon, in this alternate History.

 

[Archibald]

This sucks. Atomic rockets is outstanding indeed. The one and only website coming close I can think off is that one.

Beyond NERVA – Nuclear Power for Solar System Exploration

beyondnerva.com

Very recent, in comparison Atomic rockets has been there since, what, 1999 ?
Atomic rocketry is a world apart among generic rocketry -and his website really helped me filling a lot of blanks I had.
The way he explains how Pulsed-NTR & FFRE works is brilliant. I have a much clearer vision of NERVA strengths and weaknesses thanks to him. Same for others NTRs. Now I see where did GCNR came from in the first place.

You guess, I poured all this into Dark Moon Rising.

I feel I have barely scratched his website surface... and now this. I never contacted the author and may never have the ocasion to do that.

From what I've red about his cooperation with Eyes turned skywards authors, he seems to be a true gentleman.

Cancer must die. The proverbial "SOB illness".

 

[publiusr]

I collaborate with him for Atomic Rocket with informations and graphics mostly for Perry Rhodan Hardware.

and for Alternate History story "Eyes turned Skywards" (Winchell Chung was advisor for Authors)
I made this illustration about the First Asian Astronaut on Moon, in this alternate History.

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I think that 1km station—if it gets made—should have his name.

 

[publiusr]

Dostarlimab works wonders for rectal cancer...maybe this too?