History

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

Anthony Aveni
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Occupation: Astronomer, Anthropologist and Author

Year born: 1938

Research Areas: Archaeoastronomy, Ancient Astronomy in the Americas, Mayans

Jarita Holbrook

Jarita Holbrook
Credit: AAAS portrait photographer.
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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

Agnes Mary Clerke
Credit: Hector Macpherson

Occupation: Astronomer and Writer

Year born: 1842

Research Areas: History of Astronomy, Biographies, Spectroscopy

Mercury Missions

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.

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.

Apollo Missions

The Apollo program was a NASA mission to land humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. Six of the missions (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) were successful in landing astronauts on the Moon. There were also many unmanned Moon landings. The Apollo missions followed NASA's Mercury and Gemini missions.