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The value of science in Budget 2016 - ABC The Drum

Alan Duffy

My piece in ABC The Drum on what the 2016 budget means for science in Australia. Essentially things continue as we had hoped from earlier in the year with welcome long-term sustained funding. There was a welcome one-year extension to the Australian Astronomical Observatory delaying the end of that world-leading telescope facility by a year to 2019/20 which it is hoped will give time for a sustained and long term solution to astronomical funding in the nation.

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categories Media, Public
tags Astronomy, Science funding, Research funding, Government funding, Budget 2016, The Drum

The Private Space Race

Alan Duffy

The incredible success of Elon Musk's SpaceX in landing on a barge at sea opens the way to potentially reusable rockets, slashing the costs of space travel. The same Falcon 9 had launched a potentially groundbreaking new space module, a blow-up (or inflatable) habitat by Bigelow Aerospace known as BEAM that has now docked with the International Space Station.

I was lucky enough to get to write for ABC The Drum about this, as well as speak to TripleJ Hack about what this might mean for the future of space exploration.

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categories Media
tags SpaceX, ABC, Radio, TripleJ, Hack, The Drum, Bigelow, Inflatable habitat, BEAM