Video of Yvonne Brill's 2009 Gardner Lecture
Editor’s Note: One silver lining of the imbroglio over the New York Times’s bungling of Yvonne Brill’s obituary is that it has piqued people’s curiosity about her. There’s no better …
Results from Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to Be Announced April 3
Sam Ting’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) instrument was attached to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011 and scientists have been eagerly awaiting results ever since. Tomorrow, April 3, Ting …
NYT Reacts to Tempest Over Its Obituary on Yvonne Brill
Margaret Sullivan, public editor of the New York Times, commented in her blog today about the tempest created by the newspaper’s obituary of Yvonne Brill this weekend. In response to a …
New NRC Panel on Public Opinion About Human Spaceflight to Meet April 5
The National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Committee on Human Spaceflight and one of its two supporting panels have had several meetings already, but on Friday, April 5, the second supporting panel …
Space Policy Events of Interest: April 1-5, 2013 – UPDATE
UPDATE: The first meeting of the Panel on Public and Stakeholder Opinions of the NRC’s Human Spaceflight Committee on Friday has been added. The following events may of interest in …
New Crew Launching to Space Station Today on Direct Ascent Approach – UPDATE
UPDATE 2, March 28, 10:30 pm ET: Contact and capture confirmed at 10:28 pm ET. Soyuz TMA-08M has arrived at the ISS. UPDATE, March 28, 4:45 pm ET: Launch was …
White House To Submit FY2014 Budget on April 10
At long last, the White House has announced a firm date for sending the FY2014 budget request to Congress: April 10. It is unusual to have a budget request released …
Yvonne Brill, Distinguished Aerospace Engineer, Passes Away
Yvonne Brill, one of the nation’s top aerospace engineering laureates, died this afternoon from a staph infection. She was 88. Brill distinguished herself not only as an innovative engineer who spent most …
SpaceX's Dragon Safely Returns to Earth, Orbital Ready to Test Antares Rocket
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully returned to Earth today. This was the second of 12 contracted Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) flights for SpaceX to take cargo to and from the International Space …
Composition, Age of Universe Refined by Planck Observations
Data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Planck space telescope reveals that the universe is slightly older than previously thought, and the ratio of normal matter to dark matter and …