Stories by S. Fred Singer

S. FRED SINGER is director of the Science and Environmental Policy Project in Fairfax, Va., and professor at George Mason University. A pioneer in the use of rockets (captured German V-2s) to investigate the upper atmosphere and near-Earth space, he was the first director of the National Weather Satellite Center. He devised the cosmic-ray method of dating meteorites and was among the first to study the origin and evolution of the Martian moons.

Space & Physics

To Mars by Way of Its Moons

Phobos and Deimos would make ideal staging areas

March 21, 2000 — S. Fred Singer

Environment

Human Energy Production as a Process in the Biosphere

In releasing the energy stored in fossil and nuclear fuels man accelerates slow cycles of nature. The waste products of power generation then interact with the fast cycles of the biosphere...

September 1, 1970 — S. Fred Singer

Space & Physics

The Origin of Meteorites

Before they crash to earth these stony or metallic objects are exposed to cosmic rays. Helium produced by this bombardment provides a new clue to the planetary catastrophes of the past

November 1, 1954 — S. Fred Singer