A panel discussion on the future of space involving five CU-Boulder astronaut-alums and four Colorado space industry heavyweights will be held on Thursday, May 11, on campus.
Free and open to the public, the panel discussion will be held in room 100 of the Mathematics Building from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and will include CU astronaut-alums Loren Acton, Vance Brand, Sam Durrance, Richard Hieb and Ron Sega.
Industry panelists include Jeffrey Harris, president of Space Imaging in Thornton, who will address space information in the new economy, and Lockheed Martin Vice President for Flight Systems Noel Hinners, who will speak on the challenges of a faster, better, cheaper space program.
Other industry panelists include Ball Aerospace and Technologies Vice President of Civil Space Systems Gerald Chodill, who will talk about the search for life on other planets, and Lakewood聮s Pioneer Astronautics President Robert Zubrin, who will speak on novel techniques that could propel humans to Mars within a decade.
The Mathematics Building is located just west of the CU-Boulder engineering center. For more information contact CU-Boulder aerospace engineering sciences Professor Richard Seebass at (303) 492-2926 or Jim Scott in the CU-Boulder News Services Office at (303) 492-3114.