by mjmarggraff | Mar 5, 2015 | Space
Mount Diablo Pilots Association: Tips from Space — Feb. 20, 2015 This was a lot of fun. Right outside was the airfield where I had first soloed in 2004. The sky was clear (pilots have a habit of looking up) and the control tower had its night-time beacon...
by mjmarggraff | Mar 2, 2015 | Space
My classmates and I before we enter “The Beast” behind us. This centrifuge is the world’s best to simulate leaving Earth’s gravity hold–making the weight of Mach 3.5 acceleration feel up to 5 times the weight of my body. Once in the...
by mjmarggraff | Feb 25, 2015 | Space
Adventures of a Simulated Astronaut —the view on Mauna Loa of the HI-SEAS, the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation – to continue until May 2015 How do six researchers live inside a dome for eight months and still get along?! Their answers can help us...
by mjmarggraff | Feb 25, 2015 | Space
MD Pilots Association, Feb. 20, 2015 This winter I reveal some conversations with astronauts and others who have been or working on long-term space flights. How to pack them off for success, and the implications for us here on Earth. Space, the place of dreams, is the...
by mjmarggraff | Jan 29, 2015 | Space
North American Space Training and Research Center outside of Philadelphia, PA, July 2013. My classmates and I, along with our instructional team, wait alongside the centrifuge that we will enter to get our space training. Train like you mean it! To know what it...
by mjmarggraff | Nov 15, 2014 | Space
PICES Tour: Nov. 9, 2014 (Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems) Highpoints of attending the ‘Next Giant Leap’ Conference on the Big Island, Hawaii HI-SEAS habitat dome, where six will live for eight months (until Spring 2015) as if on Mars. Mauna...
