"Anyone who had a passion for astronomy was welcomed by him... the effort he put in was absolutely unmatched, " said space scientist Dr Lucie Green.
"But he would tell us more, he would go into depth, he would take us on a journey through space and we can't ask for better than that really, " said space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock.
"There are loads of ideas floating around, and they're serious about implementing them, " said UK space scientist John Zarnecki, who is a visiting professor at Beihang University, the new name for the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
However, what I still could do was work on the Space Shuttle program as a scientist where my work developing food for astronauts involved a project to send the first can of Coca-Cola into outer space.
"We have never explored such a place beyond our own Earth, and the technology required is not too different from the successful US-European Cassini-Huygens mission, so it's a natural for the next big international collaboration in space, " commented the scientist, who worked on the 1990s Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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"Landsat is a critical asset, " said US space agency (Nasa) project scientist Dr Jim Irons.
And while you didn't exactly have to be a rocket scientist to join the original space missions (the U.S. Mercury and Apollo programs recruited many test pilots), if you want to stand a chance against other heavily-qualified applicants, it's certainly an advantage.
"There's a huge synergy there, in astronomers trying to find the influence of dark matter by mapping stars and galaxies and large structures in the universe, and particle physicists trying to discover the source of that influence of dark matter through subatomic particles here on Earth, " said Jason Kalirai, deputy project scientist for the telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Bernard Foing is lead scientist on the mission with the European Space Agency.
"I've got no reports that I've seen that talk about people who think they might have recovered debris, " Nick Johnson, Nasa's chief scientist for orbital debris at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, told reporters during a media teleconference.
John Graham is a rover scientist at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.
As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.
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.
Across the table was a scientist working on rocket propulsion at (I believe) Marshall Space Center.
"There's no physical difference in the moon, " said Noah Petro, scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The University of Georgia doesn't just let professors run companies, it also gets them state-run incubator space-- allowing it to recruit yet another prominent stem-cell scientist.
Rafael San Miguel began his career at NASA working on the Space Shuttle program, and has spent the past 23 years as a scientist for The Coca-Cola Company.
The NASA scientist said the odds of an operational satellite being disabled by space debris remain quite small, though he points out that two have been lost after being hit by man-made debris -- a French satellite in 1996 and an American craft in 2009.
According to NASA there are about 20, 000 pieces of space junk bigger than 10cm (3.9 inches) and its chief scientist for orbital debris Nicholas L. Johnson says most robotic satellite missions are vulnerable to particles as small as 5mm (0.2 inches) -- there are thought to be millions of those in orbit.
Although I had spent a decade already in the data space, driving business impact through analytics, I did not see myself as a scientist.
Mr. DAVID SCHWARTZ (Chief Curator, Museum of the Moving Image): What Disney did that was really important was he teamed up with the scientist Wernher von Braun, who was really the most prominent scientist of the United States and was trying to promote the idea of space travel.
"There is space for an anti-euro party in Germany, " said Oskar Niedermayer, a political scientist at Berlin's Free University.
Andrew Cheng, project scientist for the Eros probe NEAR-Shoemaker, said the big question facing commercial space ventures remains what it will cost to get their equipment off Earth.
"Even if the United States is not willing at this point to go along, there is space for Latin American countries to take certain steps, " said Martin Jelsma, a political scientist who specializes in Latin America and international drugs policy at the Transnational Institute.
No scientist on Earth has yet established a proven way as how one might propel even a relatively small space craft in the scale of the Apollo command vehicle at near light speeds never mind a huge piece of space junk like a Death Star.
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