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Within my freelance portfolio you can read articles I have written as a freelance journalist for Ask the Experts, and also a sample gardening column, a book review and a feature article I wrote for the online magazine Only in Winchester.

Testimonial:

Between 2009 and 2011, Mel has written a series of entertaining and intelligent articles on a range of topics for Splendid Fred. Mel is willing and able to adapt her writing style to fit a range of subjects and I have no hesitation in recommending her.

Glenn Fosbraey - Editor, Splendid Fred Magazine.


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Tuesday
Nov082011

Ask the Experts: NASA Invests In Tractor Beam Research

Tractor beam technology, the use of laser light to ‘trap and move objects’ has been in research and development since the 1990’s.   In the world of science fiction tractor beams have been around and active for some time.

Darth Vader and Obi Wan Kenobi’s iconic duel occurred after tractor beams from the Death Star captured the Millennium Falcon.

But now science fact is catching up fast.

At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center three scientists, Paul Stysley, Demetrios Poulios and Barry Coyle were recently awarded funding by the NASA Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT) to study the ‘concept for remotely capturing planetary or atmospheric particles and delivering them to a robotic rover or orbiting spacecraft for analysis.’

 

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