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Promoting global education, teaching, and research in space science.

Introduction

Over just a few decades, space science and technology has become one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving fields of modern research. One crucial contributing factor to this growth has been the Regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education project: an initiative by the United Nations (UN) to integrate regional cultures with robust educational curricula.

Hans Haubold (UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs), together with A M Mathai (Centre for Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, CMSS), and Lewis Pyenson (Western Michigan University), has authored three publications that explain how the project is actively building an expert community of space scientists spanning the entire globe.

Science and mathematics are often seen as an expression of the true nature of the world around us. Yet as researchers seek to understand and control nature by studying these fields, their efforts will inevitably be intertwined with the widely varying cultures of human society: a theme that has played out throughout the entire history of scientific discovery.

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