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.
The cultural roots of the Columbia disaster can be traced back to years of management drift at NASA, but the technical cause reaches back just days,... Read more →
On February 1, 2003 the Space Shuttle Columbia was returning home along with its seven crew members. They had successfully completed a 15 day... Read more →
First man in space, Yuri Gagarin (left) with fellow cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov, the first man to undertake a spacewalk (Credits: RIA Novosti). Yuri... Read more →
Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen have been developing Copenhagen Suborbitals, the open source, backyard endeavor they founded to launch... Read more →
Chris Hadfield announces his retirement from CSA-ASC headquarters a month after returning from ISS (Credits: CSA-ASC webcast). Just a month after... Read more →