of Kurt Manwaring
Sponsored by BYU Studies—Susannah Gibson is the author of The Spirit of Inquiry: How one extraordinary society shaped modern science (Oxford University Press, 2019). Continue reading “10 questions with Susannah Gibson”
Laura D. Hahn and Angela S. Wolters are the editors of Women and Ideas in Engineering: Twelve Stories from Illinois. Continue reading “10 questions with Laura D. Hahn and Angela S. Wolters”
The Parker Solar Probe is designed to travel millions of miles and get closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history. Along the way, it will receive gravity assists from Venus, become both the fastest object and most autonomous spacecraft ever made by humanity, and virtually carry more than a million passengers. Continue reading “10 stellar facts about NASA’s mission to the sun”
Jill Tarter is a SETI Institute Trustee and the inspiration for Jodi Foster’s character in the movie, “Contact.”
On a personal note, I was introduced to Jill via John Gertz, former SETI Chairman and President and CEO of Zorro Productions. She engaged in a correspondence with my daughter, sending a handwritten note thanking her for a $2.00 donation to the SETI Institute and including a bevy of space-related materials to encourage her interest in science.
Mika McKinnon is a scientist specializing in disasters and generalizing in as many subjects as she can master. She was a science advisor for the sci-fi television franchise, “Stargate.”