We need more young men and women who choose science as a career and we need better support for those scientists who have the talent and the determination to engage in fruitful research work. Challenging research objectives must be available, and sufficient support for research projects must be pr...
" In fact, I have known of famined children long before I knew that a voyage to the planet Mars is technically feasible. However, I believe, like many of my friends, that travelling to the Moon and eventually to Mars and to other planets is a venture which we should undertake now, and...
and we really wanted to know, could you take these really wonderful classic ideas in community ecology, top-down effects where predators have an important role in affecting primary producers like plants, or algae and ecosystems and bottom-up effects, where nutrients are the important...
" In fact, I have known of famined children long before I knew that a voyage to the planet Mars is technically feasible. However, I believe, like many of my friends, that travelling to the Moon and eventually to Mars and to other planets is a venture which we should undertake now, and...
on this spaceship that's just gone through a launch sequence.And you have to turn your spaceship into an orbiting platform.And so you're very busy.So we have these books.And we're heads down in the books.And we...
Apollo 13's RTGs: Houston, Do We Really Have A Problem? Will NASA Ever Recover Apollo 13s Plutonium From the Sea?, Txchnologist “I don’t think that anyone has seriously considered that,” said Leonard Dudzinski, a NASA program executive who deals with radioisotope power systems. The pluton...
Many have heard the erroneous quote “Houston, we have a problem.” which was popularized in the movie Apollo 13. The full quote was first spoken by Jack Swigert. When Houston requested the crew to repeat, Jim Lovell echoed Jack and responded "Houston, we've had a problem here.” THE...
MMA:But in the very beginning, when I first launched into space,you're very busy, you know,on this spaceship that's just gone through a launch sequenceand you have to turn your spaceship into an orbiting platform.And so you're very busy.So we have these books and we're heads down ...
The results show that temperatures (maximum and minimum), wind speed and radiation have a positive influence on evapotranspiration. The increase in these variables leads to an increase in evapotranspiration. On the other hand, an increase in relative humidity leads to a decrease in ET0. In ...
Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were searching for. In this Q&A, we ask why. Search for Life UFO whistleblowers tell Congress 'we are not alone in the cosmos' (video) ...