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Arizona's Air Traffic Controller — For Space
Published: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 3:49pm
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Air traffic controllers help make sure planes keep a safe distance, and don’t run into each other, among other things — but what about space?
Who makes sure all the stuff floating around above the Earth keeps a safe distance? Moriba Jah may just be that person.
Jah is the director of Space Object Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona and has been called a “space traffic controller.”