

Her latest book, " Why Am I Taller?", is co-written with astronaut Dave Williams. Elizabeth's reporting includes multiple exclusives with the White House and Office of the Vice-President of the United States, an exclusive conversation with aspiring space tourist (and NSYNC bassist) Lance Bass, speaking several times with the International Space Station, witnessing five human spaceflight launches on two continents, flying parabolic, working inside a spacesuit, and participating in a simulated Mars mission. She was contributing writer for for 10 years before joining full-time. Įlizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. 11 with a splashdown off the coast of California, in the Pacific Ocean, assuming that all milestones continue to go to plan.Įlizabeth Howell is the co-author of " Why Am I Taller ?" (ECW Press, 2022 with Canadian astronaut Dave Williams), a book about space medicine. Voyager 1 was above the plane of the solar system and beyond planet Neptune when it took the picture. An oft-cited example is the " pale blue dot" image (named after a quote from Carl Sagan) taken by NASA's Voyager 1 probe in 1990. Numerous science spacecraft have captured Earth from even further afield, although those views were not broadcast live. 24, 1968, which showcased black-and-white footage of the moon as NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first humans to circle the moon. Perhaps the most famous example was a Christmas Eve broadcast from Apollo 8 on Dec. The new footage is the highest-definition live view from beyond the moon to date, although many Apollo program missions have broadcast from that region in the 1960s and 1970s. The Orion spacecraft views Earth and moon during an Artemis 1 livestream Nov.
