Sentences with phrase «space historian»
A "space historian" is someone who studies and specializes in the history of space exploration and human achievements in outer space. They research past events, missions, and the people involved, in order to understand and document the progress and significant moments in space exploration over time. Full definition
This past year was also a prime time for space historians.
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We contacted space historian Roger Launius, a senior curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, to find out why NASA settled on lifting off from the Cape.
Our Planetary Radio Live celebration of Mars rover Curiosity at Planetfest continues with more from space historian Andrew Chaikin, former NASA Mars czar Scott Hubbard and Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Dwayne Day, an American space historian, policy analyst and author, has previously written on Area 51, as well as the 1974 Skylab image flap.
Robert Zimmerman is a well known and respected space historian and author.
Space policy guru John Logsdon and space historian James Oberg will be online to answer your questions, and Science's space reporter Yudhijit Bhattacharjee will moderate.
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.
Space historian David S. F. Portree has chronicled many such mission concepts in his blog Beyond Apollo.
PlanRad Live welcomes space historian and writer Andrew Chaikin, former NASA Mars Czar Scott Hubbard, and Bill Nye the Science Guy to a live conversation at Planetfest: Curiosity Knows No Bounds, just a few hours before the triumphant landing of the big new rover on Mars.
Andrew Chaikin, one of the foremost space historians, spoke to 22 of the original 23 Apollo astronauts when researching A Man on the Moon, an exhaustive book about the Apollo program.
Science journalist and space historian Andrew Chaikin is author of A Man on the Moon.
Space historian Roger D. Launius, a senior curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, provides an answer (as told to John Matson):
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.
PlanRad Live welcomes former NASA Mars Czar Scott Hubbard, space historian and writer Andrew Chaikin and Bill Nye the Science Guy to a live conversation at Planetfest 2012, just a few hours before the triumphant landing of Curiosity on Mars.