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You can also learn more about MMS (Magnetospheric Multiscale) by going to our web site: http://space.rice.edu/MMS/ It will be four spacecraft flying in formation, so that you can determine changes that are caused by moving through a structure versus changes that are caused by the entire structure changing...

I get to travel quite a lot in my job, both for scientific conferences around the world (like one I was at just last week in Taiwan) and for team meetings for my spacecraft missions (for example, I was in England last month for a Cluster team meeting). Many missions these days have team members from...

Wow, in 10 years I'll be 68 years old. By that age many people retire from work, but space science is so much fun that many of us work long into our 70's or even 80's. Dr. Bill Gordon, who invented the Arecibo Telescope, is 90 years old! I am working on the planning of a spacecraft call the...

As a graduate student, I worked on data from the "CPLEE" instrument that was flown as part of the Apollo mission, but I didn't build it. Similarly I worked on data from the Atmosphere Explorer spacecraft when I was a Post-Doc. But for the Dynamics Explorer, Polar, Cluster and IMAGE spacecraft...