Topic: Pamela Gay
Closer Look: The List of Canceled Projects Keeps Growing

Closer Look: The List of Canceled Projects Keeps Growing

After writing that last section, I took a break, I ate some edamame, and I scanned BlueSky, and I learned the story I now need to write is somehow even more depressing than it was 30 minutes ago. There are a lot of articles out there on the missions that may be cancelled… on how the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope is nearly ready for launch and might just get shelved or worse… but what I’m not seeing are stories on what these cuts will mean to the space science workforce. That’s the story I want to tell. As the story went, the president’s proposed, but not yet submitted, FY 26 budget for...

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Closer Look: Mars Occupies the Science Journals

Closer Look: Mars Occupies the Science Journals

Talk of Mars has been seeping into just about every area of media, as rumors swirl that NASA’s current plans to return humans to the Moon will be replaced with plans to fly directly to Mars. Given that we can’t currently keep people alive on Mars, I’m really hoping...

Europa Clipper Joins in on the Star Observing

Europa Clipper Joins in on the Star Observing

It doesn’t take a lot of telescope to make the number of visible stars radically increase, in it turns out even the Europa clipper, with its several centimeter star tracker cameras, has been regularly making its own observations.  The Clipper launched  October 14,...

One Star Cluster, 80 Million Pixels

One Star Cluster, 80 Million Pixels

Nebula encasing RCW 38 (credit:ESO/VVVX survey) Our modern, highly efficient cameras and massive telescopes allow us to not only do massive surveys, they also allow us to see specific objects in previously unimagined detail. The 4-m Visible and Infrared Survey...

Suni Williams Breaks Women’s Spacewalk Record

Suni Williams Breaks Women’s Spacewalk Record

NASA astronaut Suni Williams conducts spacewalk The US Human presence in space is supposed to be flying back and forth form the ISS on a combo of SpaceX and Boeing crew capsules. Unfortunately, was undermined by it’s own failures to deliver on time and a myriad of...

Ordering Enough Water for Early Planet Earth

Ordering Enough Water for Early Planet Earth

artist's depiction of planets colliding. While major asteroid and comet impacts have often been devastating for life on Earth, life on Earth wouldn’t be here without impacts that occurred early in our world’s history.  As the story goes, Due to our planet’s...