Sentences with phrase «says space historian»

None have been technological breakthroughs (the United States and Russia accomplished similar feats decades ago), but the Chinese «have made demonstrable progress in the last decade,» says space historian Roger Launius of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Not exact matches

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

«I think it actually fit very well with the flow of the book to have an art historian write the introduction and kind of describe the history of space and art,» Miller said, referring to Betsy Fahlman, a professor of art history at Arizona State University.

Nor is it obvious how grand a grand challenge can be, such as in space exploration: «You can start this kind of activity with small robotic projects, but at some point it doesn't scale up very well,» says Howard McCurdy, a space historian and public policy professor at American University in Washington, D.C. «Nobody knows where the limit is.»

«This is the toughest environment in the solar system,» says Matt Bille, a space historian at Booz Allen Hamilton.

Art historian Mathias Koddenberg, writing about this signature work, has said that it «masks strong questions about public and private space, and visibility and wrapping within the guise of a seemingly familiar façade.

She had the space to do so, but instead hypothesized that science (and presumably climate science) bases its approach to statistical testing in the long shadow of its ancient historical ties to religion, which is something she may well be able to offer an opinion about, as an historian, but which has minimal relevance to policy makers or the interested public in interpreting scientific claims as found, say, in the IPCC reports.