Category: Mayyasi

With Space Tourism a Reality, Will Civilians Travel to Space? And When?

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Majd Mayyasi (GRS’09,’13), a BU Center for Space Physics senior research scientist, discusses the future of civilian space travel and how it would impact the study of space with BU Today editor Doug Most. She also shares her experience training for suborbital flight as part of an inaugural program for scientists. Transcript Dana Ferrante: This is Question of the Week, […]

NYTimes: The Moon Has a Comet-Like Tail. Every Month It Shoots a Beam Around Earth.

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In a recent article from NYTimes, CSP’s Senior Research Scientist Jeffrey Baumgardner discusses the comet-like tail of the Moon. An animation shows how sodium atoms ejected from the lunar surface are affected by the moon’s orbit around planet Earth. Video by James O’Donoghue/@PhysicsJ, based on simulations by Jody K. Wilson. Carl Sagan once said that […]