South African Space Agency

1 Aug 2006

The establishment of the South African Space Agency has been given the go-ahead. A NASA it will never be, but it's still exciting and necessary IMHO (my wife would disagree :-) Primary focus will be on setting up a general space policy and astronomical research - we already have world-class achievements to be proud of in this area (the Square Kilometre Array, Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, SALT which I've blogged about before).

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Born 11th September 2008, at 04h45. 3.3kgs, 10/10 Apgar, perfectly wonderful little miracle.

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First on the Umhlanga beach, early on a beautiful KZN morning

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Hannah McPhail 3D scan - June 2008

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Phoenix Mars Lander touchdown - May 2008

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Here we go again - pregnant :-)

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Radio Telescope

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