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 relative positions of Earth and Mars during a Mars solar conjunction (Credits: NASA). You might have thought that cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky... Read more →
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil slick as seen from space (Credits: NASA). What does a NASA safety engineer do when his shuttle's been retired and... Read more →
A coronal hole, seen as the large dark region in the center of this image, is spewing solar wind in the direction of Earth (Credits: NASA... Read more →
Observing Earth has always been intrinsic to International Space Station operations, but like crew photography, it did not begin as a formal or... Read more →
The Tohoku earthquake's impact on GOCE (Credits: ESA). Coinciding with the two year anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake that hit Japan on March... Read more →