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Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.

First word on NASA Budget Cuts

Over the weekend, Congress voted into place the FY2024 budgets for multiple agencies, including NASA. It’s a 2% cut with >3% inflation.

8 min readMar 13, 2024

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First word on NASA Budget Cuts

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Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.

Introducing: Election Year Story Time Picks

Join me in reading books that challenge us to understand politics, economics, and the reality of democracy. Think boldly this election…

4 min readMar 4, 2024

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Introducing: Election Year Story Time Picks

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Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.

A Second Moon Lander Falls Over

If you can’t make sense of the above image, it’s ok. What you’re seeing is the view from the Odysseus Lunar Lander. Taken with a fish-eye…

2 min readFeb 29, 2024

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A Second Moon Lander Falls Over

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Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.

Back in 2015, I knowingly blew up my life

Back in 2015, I knowingly blew up my life. In 2015, I blew up my life. I gave voice to sexual harassment victims. The backlash was mighty.

6 min readFeb 29, 2024

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Back in 2015, I knowingly blew up my life

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Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.

Space journalists != war correspondents … yet?

Each week, in picking stories for Escape Velocity Space News, I look for news in a lot of places. This week I found a lot of bad to report.

3 min readFeb 21, 2024

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Space journalists != war correspondents … yet?

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Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.

Fundraising 2nd Chances

TL:DR; As inflation has gone up, donations have gone down faster. We get it. We totally get it. But now we have medical bills and really…

6 min readOct 18, 2023

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Fundraising 2nd Chances

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Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.

Sometimes stars eat worlds… Sometimes they spit them out

Here we look at 3 stars and many planets and all the kinds of planetary murder the stars failed (and succeeded) in attempting.

5 min readJul 9, 2023

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Sometimes stars eat worlds… Sometimes they spit them out

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Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.

The Earth is trying to give you more hours in your day… but it wasn’t always

I feel confident in saying many wish we could somehow cram more hours into every day. At a certain level, our world is happy to oblige.

4 min readJul 8, 2023

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The Earth is trying to give you more hours in your day… but it wasn’t always

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Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.

NANOGrav: Fluctuations in space captured in real-time

We can now see the fabric of space being wibbly wobbly through the tiny timey wimey changes in pulsar ticks in NANOGrav data.

7 min readJul 7, 2023

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NANOGrav: Fluctuations in space captured in real-time

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Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.

Pareidolia: Why you see faces on Mars

Would you rather believe aliens carved a face or that some mountains randomly looks like a badly carved face? But which is more likly?

8 min readApr 26, 2023

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Pareidolia: Why you see faces on Mars

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Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.

Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.

Astronomer, technologist, & creative focused on using new media to engage people in learning and doing science. Opinions & typos my own.

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