Thebe Medupe
Credit: North West University
Used by permission
Occupation: Astrophysicist & Ethno-astronomer
Year born: 1973
Research Areas: Variable Stars
History
Credit: North West University
Used by permission
Haida Liang
Occupation: Professor of Physics
Research Areas: Imaging and Sensing, Conservation, Science and Art
"I’m working on the boundary between optical imaging and history… physics and history are the two things that I love."
Anthony Aveni
Credit: All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Occupation: Astronomer, Anthropologist and Author
Year born: 1938
Research Areas: Archaeoastronomy, Ancient Astronomy in the Americas, Mayans
Jarita Holbrook
Credit: AAAS portrait photographer.
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Occupation: Professor of Astronomy
Year born: 1965
Research Areas: History, Cultural Studies of Astronomy, African Indigenous Astronomy
Allan Chapman
Occupation: Historian
Year born: 1946
Research Areas: History of Science, History of Astronomy, Broadcasting
"Historians of astronomy…are… people with a broad and open-minded curiosity about those forces which drove human endeavour in the past."
Agnes Clerke
Credit: Hector Macpherson
Occupation: Astronomer and Writer
Year born: 1842
Research Areas: History of Astronomy, Biographies, Spectroscopy
History
analogue computer used to predict
astronomical positions and eclipse.
Credit: Wikicommons user Marsyas
Firsts in Space
First animals in space
Credit: Public Domain
Mercury Missions
Credit: NASA
The Mercury missions was NASA's first human spaceflight program, from 1958 to 1963. There were 20 unmanned flights (some which sent animals into space), and six successful flights by astronauts.
Gemini Missions
The Gemini missions was NASA's human spaceflight program in the early 1960s. The Gemini missions came after the Mercury missions, and before the Apollo missions. Each Gemini spacecraft could carry two astronauts, and 10 spacecraft were launched during the Space Race.
