... missions to the Moon." At its closest, Solar Orbiter will face the Sun from within the orbit of Mercury, approximately 42 million kilometres from the solar surface. Cutting-edge heatshield technology will ensure the spacecraft...
... heavily throughout the conference, with speakers such as Dr. Hina Khan, PamAnderson, Dr Christina Mackaill, Cassandra Mercury and Dr Sonali Mohapatra. An overarching theme of the conference is to create a thriving space sector with individuals...
...in Mission Control for the International Space Station Program. In addition to serving as executive sponsor of Blue Origin’s New Mercury gender diversity business resource group, she is a pilot and serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the...
... female spaceflight’, it tells the story of Jerrie Cobb (famous for taking the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts) and the lesser-known Jackie Cochran, a World War II pilot who, in the late 1950s, held...
... dog; a Soviet “engineer” with Sputnik; Explorer 1 held high by Pickering, Van Allen and von Braun; the Mercury 7; Earthrise; Aldrin and the flag… Worse still, they are poorly reproduced on that sepia-toned paper...
... this book. The book’s images are sorted according to mission, starting with some of the best from Mercury and Gemini for context but mostly covering Apollo 7 to 17. There follows a short chapter on the development of space...