The research is published online in the International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences.
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The current Chair-holder of the UNESCO Chair in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Dr Suleiman Baraka, is a well-known scientist with an international profile.
"The UrtheCast camera will support the ISS and continue to inspire youth to pursue advanced studies in space sciences and spark interest in science, technology, engineering and the environment, " says Dr.Williams.
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She graduated with a first-class degree in earth and space sciences from UCL, studied under Seymour for her PhD, and went on to forge her own career as a research fellow and most recently as a university lecturer.
On March 2, 2012, the UNESCO Director-General signed at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris an agreement between UNESCO and three universities, respectively -- The Islamic University of Gaza, the Al Aqsa University and Al Azhar University -- for the establishment of a UNESCO Chair in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences.
"It would be nice if you could do that but I'm not sure it would work - it depends whether it is a simple mechanical component or something more complex, " Prof Pillinger, who now works at the Planetary and Space Sciences department at the Open University, told BBC News.
Now the space-sciences division watches for its work popping up in more popular contexts.
The civil unrest of the previous decade had finally settled down, the student body was growing larger and more diverse, the university had changed its applications process to a double-blind procedure with no special consideration for gender, race, or ethnicity, and research in medicine and the physical sciences shared space in the curriculum with philosophy and art.
In 2008, NASA awarded contracts to deliver cargo to the International Space Station to SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corporation.
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On 25 July 2011 the UNESCO space partner, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, opens an International Centre under the auspices of UNESCO1.
The US space agency (Nasa) and the Russian academy of sciences are planning to break through the ice to sample the water for life.
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It is co-organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and UNESCO, and hosted by the International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST), a Centre under the auspices of UNESCO, and the Centre for Earth Observation and Digital Earth (CEODE).
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We have teamed up with one of the most respected cyber-universities in the United States to develop a program to integrate the two sciences (cyber and physical security) into an environment similar to that of Space Camp at the Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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