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14 Feb

Good morning - especially to everyone in Oz and the Southern Hemisphere - am up early thanks to somebody yowling loudly by our bedroom door since 7am (also shown here with his sister)

@Taraustralis

That's a great hello to @Taraustralis who has allowed me to tweet this week of Mars and also to @drspacejunk for her kind words about our book. Allow me to repay the compliment. Her book is just brilliant!

And so when I have had the 5,997,872 cups of coffee to properly awake, will tweet lots of Mars, quite a lot of Greenland and share some other thoughts, too

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People_of_Space: Nicholas

@People_Of_Space

13 Feb

Originally I wanted to be an astronomer but all the astronomers I met said “Do physics as astronomy is just pretty pictures. You need to understand what’s behind the pictures.”

So for reasons which are now obscure, I did physics at university in London – which involved three years of one lecturer mumbling to a two-inch square of a blackboard, the rest writing out Greek symbols and the rest of us trying to get obsolete equipment to work

On my first day, I was called Mr Booth. I thought my dad was standing by me. One of our lecturers also said probably the best ecapsulation of the sciences I have ever heard – “If it smells, it’s chemistry: if it moves, it’s biology; and if it doesn’t work, it’s physics”

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People_of_Space: Nicholas

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13 Feb

Thanks to @taraaustralis for that introduction! What I will attempt over the next week is what I have been doing on and off for the last forty-five years – talking incessantly about Mars, why it has always inspired me and a few stories from having written and reported about it

So my illustrious career began on Astronomy Now, then freelancing for UK newspapers – especially The Observer and Guardian – before becoming a technology editor on The Times

For the last twenty years I have mostly been writing books – detective stories about spies and fraudsters - now scripts, adaptations and have a thriller out this year.

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People_of_Space: Nicholas

@People_Of_Space

12 Feb

Let's talk about NASA Internships! Presently, they fall into two primary categories: Internships and Pathways. They both offer awesome opportunities within the agency. #NASAInterns

Internships are usually specifically tied to one specific program or mission and last a single term: Fall, Spring or Summer. The funding can come from a variety of sources and you generally aren't considered a civil servant. #NASAInterns

Pathways on the other hand are funded and employed directly by NASA in a civil service capacity, which means regular pay on the GS scale, as opposed to a stipend. They also are more general to whatever NASA center you're hired at. #NASAInterns

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People_of_Space: Nicholas

@People_Of_Space

9 Feb

@LucyMission

Let's take a break from talking about student opportunities and discuss one of NASA's most exciting upcoming missions: the @LucyMission to the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids! #Lucy2021

Lucy will be launching atop an Atlas V 401 later this year on a long duration mission to study two groups of Jupiter Trojan Asteroids up close using a complex flight plan of multiple flybys. #Lucy2021

These asteroids reside at Jupiter's L4 and L5 Lagrangian points, known as the Greek and Trojan camps respectively. The interesting thing about them is that they may offer us a window into the primordial material of the Solar System! #Lucy2021

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People_of_Space: Nicholas

@People_Of_Space

8 Feb

Let's discuss some of the opportunities available to engineering and other STEM students to get experience with NASA programs! One of the absolute best is NCAS and I'll be discussing it in this thread.

NCAS stands for NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars and it's available to any current college student at a two-year institution who is interested in learning more about the agency and perhaps pursuing it as a career.

Upon acceptance to NCAS, you'll spend time attending virtual sessions and completing online activities about the various responsibilities that NASA has. The fun really starts when it's time to pick a final project from a selection of them.

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