Having wandered into professional writing and editing after a decade in engineering, science, and management, Merryl now enjoys reintegrating the dichotomy by bringing space technology and policy within reach of an interested public. After three years as Space Safety Magazine’s Managing Editor, Merryl semi-retired to Visiting Contributor and manager of the campaign to bring the International Space Station collaboration to the attention of the Nobel Peace Prize committee. She keeps her pencil sharp as Proposal Manager for U.S. government contractor CSRA.
Rendition of the 56 X-ray telescope array that comprises SEXTANT, mounted on ISS (Credits: NASA). A sextant is an old-fashioned tool used for... Read more →
Locations of 2013 Space App Challenge events (Credits: openNASA). On April 20-21, the second International Space Apps Challenge will take place... Read more →
A Soyuz takes the train to the Baikonour launch pad (Credits: NASA). On April 1, Russian and Kazakh officials announced that they had reached a... Read more →
What happens when the world's largest space agency gets hit by simultaneous arbitrary budget cuts and accusations of security lapses? It starts... Read more →
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