Jonathan’s Space Report mentions two women astronomers. Dorrit Hoffleit, who has just died aged 100 and Annie Cannon:
“I report with sadness the death of Dorrit Hoffleit at the age of 100.
Dorrit was the author of the Yale Bright Star Catalog, first published
in 1930 and reaching its fifth edition in the 1990s. In her almost
80-year-long active […]
One day C came up to the Lab with a book he’d found at the corner of Telegraph and Haste. There’s a kind of ledge there and I realised after he brought it that things are often left there for other people to pick up. Later I left a pop-up “I Love Clifford” book there.
The […]
Somebody mentioned to me the other day that Pioneer is not where it should be.
There was a newspaper cutting I photographed in Ed Grayzeck’s office at NASA Goddard
The Planetary Society are helping to fund an investigation of thirty years of Pioneer data, as NASA will not. Maybe its both spacecraft, Pioneer 10 and 11. They […]
NASA provides funding in roughly three year blocks for science research using satellites. You might launch a satellite that took twelve years to develop, but you only have three years of funding and then you have to apply again. Its competitive, you might not get it. Also, sometimes no one is funded and the satellite […]
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/main/index.html
About the plan for America to return to the moon
“The How and Why of Returning to the Moon
NASA has unveiled the initial elements of the Global Exploration Strategy and a proposed U.S. lunar architecture, two critical tools for achieving the nation’s vision of returning humans to the moon.”
and just out, the new NASA science strategy:
http://science.hq.nasa.gov/strategy/index.html
Grace are twin satellites. They are shaped like two gold bars and orbit alongside each other.
They have gathered data on climate change which the US government has been accused of censoring.
Jim Hansen spoke about this at the AGU conference in San Francisco in December. I didn’t go to it, I only heard about it afterwards, […]
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