Jeff has been involved in aerospace journalism since the mid 1990s. Prior to joining Aviation Week, Jeff served as managing editor of Launchspace magazine and the International Space Industry Report. He has been the editor and chief of Aviation Week's Aerospace Daily & Defense Report since 2007 and has been a regular contributor to Aviation Week magazine. He received his B.A. from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
MOON SHOT: Forty years ago, on July 16, 1969, Mission Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin lifted off in a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Launch took place at 9:32 a.m. local time and the astronauts reached Earth orbit 12 minutes later. Apollo 11 was the fifth human spaceflight in the Apollo program, the third human trip to the moon, and the first to land astronauts on its surface.
NASA has tapped the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics to develop the off-again/on-again Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS) for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).
Solar scientists and space weather forecasters hope to gain new insight into the Sun’s magnetic field and how it creates potentially dangerous space weather after NASA launches its latest heliophysics spacecraft this November.
