20 March 2019
Webb telescope partly blamed for WFIRST funding cut
... March 19 on Twitter that he hopes “bipartisan support for basic research will again prevail.” Spergel is the science co-chair for NASA’s planned Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST (pictured on this page), which the agency...
January 2023
Asgardia expands its reach
...’s goal to create a sustainable space society is very important for the future of all humankind. I’m so pleased I’ve been able to chair so much progress towards that target. So go on - join our stellar adventure and help make space history. Editor...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... de Paris, CNRS, France. Gerhard Kminek is Vice-Chair of the bureau of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection...European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Niklas Hedman is Vice-Chair of the bureau of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection, ...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
...Board of Directors of the American Astronautical Society and chair of the Greater Houston Partnership’s Aerospace and Aviation ...the founder of strategic marketing firm AstroAgency and co-chair of the Scottish Space Leadership Council (SSLC). He...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
...University and as a consultant for NewSpace companies before returning to my home country Slovakia. There I was eventually elected chair of the Slovak Organisation for Space Activities (SOSA), which designed and constructed the first Slovak satellite...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... to the Australian Defence Space Coordinating Office and chaired inter-departmental and international working groups in respect...’s space science and industry sector (21 November 2008) (Chair: Annette Hurley). 4 Edited Advancing Australia in Space, ...
