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.
View from the race course: Kennedy Space Center (Credits: RocketMan Triathlon). On August 16, NASA's Kennedy Space Center announced the first... Read more →
Model of a solar neutrino event at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (Credits: LBL Research Review). With increasing orbital assets as well as... Read more →
Decadal survey's recommendation for NASA's heliophysics division (Credits: National Research Council). On August 15, the second solar and space... Read more →
The X-51A WaveRider (Credits: US Air Force). On Tuesday, August 14, a much-hyped hypersonic test flight of the US Air Force X-51A WaveRider went... Read more →
The Falcon-9 carrying the Dragon capsule to the ISS failed to launch in the final 0.5 second of countdown at a May 19 launch attempt (Credits:... Read more →