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In Memoriam: David S. McKay

Posted by Bruce Betts on 2013/02/21 06:11 CST | 1 comments

NASA planetary scientist David S. McKay has passed away. He had an enormous impact on planetary studies over the course of his career. He also was a co-investigator on The Planetary Society LIFE experiments.

Columbia, ten years on

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/02/01 11:47 CST

Remembering Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon on the tenth anniversary of the loss of the space shuttle Columbia.

A True Pioneer of the Science and Art of Flight

Posted by John M. Logsdon on 2012/08/27 03:29 CDT

Although Neil Armstrong may have passed away, his name will be part of human history forever.

Portrait of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong changed the world

Posted by Bill Nye on 2012/08/25 10:39 CDT | 15 comments

Neil Armstrong changed the world. He was an excellent engineer and an outstanding pilot. He got the assignment to land a completely novel rocket machine on the Earth’s Moon, because he was the perfect man for the job: He could really fly; he had excellent judgment about the capabilities of his ship; and above all, he had a remarkable ability to keep his wits about him in extraordinarily dangerous situations.

Sally Ride, 1951 - 2012

Posted by Bill Nye on 2012/07/23 05:41 CDT | 5 comments

Sally Ride changed the world. We are very sorry to hear of her recent death after a nearly two-year battle with cancer. Dr. Ride was an excellent astronaut, a remarkable educator, and a longtime Planetary Society friend and adviser.

Ray Bradbury, a friend of The Planetary Society

Posted by Bill Nye on 2012/06/06 07:41 CDT | 8 comments

Thank you Ray; you changed the world. At the Planetary Society we will do our best to see to it that your dreams and hopes of exploring the distant regions of the Solar System, Mars especially, and are kept alive.