January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
... has less magnesium, and therefore, proportionally more iron. Individual crystals of olivine erupted in volcanic rocks usually exhibit chemical zonation, which is the story of the melt cooling and olivine crystallising. Almost always this involves...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... awarded afterwards. The students were taken to space museums and, in Moscow, the old Cosmos pavilion at the Exhibition of Economic and Scientific Achievements, the VDNK (which had languished ignominiously as a car salesroom in the 1990s), re-opened...
May 2020
Time to discuss regulations for future interplanetary trade
... of new trade’ between the Earth and other planets. Two of a series of posters originally commissioned by NASA for an exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Complex. As part of NASA’s Journey to Mars, they are now available to everyone...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... award-winning author of some 50 books on space and technology, Joe played a key role in creating a new permanent exhibit at the National Electronics Museum, Maryland, USA, titled ‘Satellites: Transforming Our Lives’.
July 2020
Trailblazing STEM education
... Module, the Orion test capsule, a collection of more than 30 aircraft spanning 100 years of flights and interactive exhibits that explore our world - past, present and future. It is logical, therefore, that the Center should act...
October 2020
Microgravity and its effects on the human brain
... specifically. In a later study by the same author, it was shown that astronauts, where globe flattening was present, exhibited increased CSF production rates post-flight, and those with no globe flattening showed increased CSF maximum...
