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.
Plaques between neurons is one of the indicators of Alzheimer's Disease and seem to be increased with GCR exposure (Credits: Alzheimer's Disease... Read more →
Depiction of a robotic asteroid capture vessel (Credits: Rick Sternbach/Keck Institute for Space Studies). Not long after the US Presidential... Read more →
"To provide a little perspective on the size of Grasshopper, we added a 6 ft cowboy to the rocket" tweeted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. On December 17,... Read more →
Final assembly of the Breeze-M at the Khrunichev Center (Credits: Kommersant). Roscosmos has determined the cause of an underperforming Breeze-M... Read more →
South Korea's navy collected this and other pieces of debris dropped from Unha-3's spent rockets (Credits: Reuters). On December 12, North Korea... Read more →