October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... bodies, all of which can cause collisions. Syncom Three, which launched in 1964, with (from left) Don Williams, Thomas Hudspeth and Harold Rosen who designed the electronics, propulsion and power systems. And the...
September 2018
ROOM helps raise student space awareness
... point. The five selected articles were: Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony, by William West and Kris Lehnhardt, issue #2 (12) 2017 Spaceflight studies support geriatric health on Earth, by Nandu Goswami, Helmut...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
... the mitigating effect of protected areas in the Amazon, by Christopher P. Barber, Mark A. Cochrane, Carlos M. Souza & William F. Laurance; Biological Conservation 177 (2014) 203–209) 2 Deforestation and Greenhouse Gases, a study by the Congressional...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... warned by Houston via a coded message to slow down. This medical situation had its dangers - heart specialist Dr William Rowe has subsequently considered that at the time Armstrong was getting close to his maximum heart rate...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
... considerable research and negotiation, Skyrora acquired the battered first stage from the remote Outback community of William Creek, where it lay in a small park for three decades. Two members of the original Black Arrow engineering...
November 2019
Space for Art – Reflections on the Moon
... at the Kennedy Space Center and, as the composer looked back over the Apollo 8 mission, she saw William Anders’ iconic photograph Earthrise and began to understand how powerful this perspective could be. Women who compose...
