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Spring Seminar Series

Modern Space Science and Engineering,

3-5pm, MIT Bldg. 37, Room 212 - (70 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA)

February 4, 2009 - Prof. Jeffrey Hoffman, MIT- "The Hubble Space Telescope "

February 11, 2009 - Prof. John Clarke, Boston University- "Studying the Atmosphere of Venus with Sounding Rocket Experiments"

February 18, 2009 - Prof. Richard French, Wellesley College- "The Rings of Saturn "

February 25, 2009 - Prof. Thomas Herring, MIT- "Earthscope: A "Telescope" Looking at and into the Earth "

March 4, 2009 - Dr. Jon Clark, National Space Biomedical Research Institute, - "Accidents and Safety in Human Space Flight "

March 11, 2009 - Dr. Greg Chamitoff, NASA Astronaut- "Six Months on the International Space Station"

March 18, 2009 - Dr. Chris Carr, MIT- "The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes (SETG): An in-situ Detector for Life on Mars Ancestrally Related to Life on Earth "

March 25, 2009 - Spring Break

April 1, 2009 - Dr. Kevin Duda, Draper Laboratory, "The Challenges of Safe, Precise Lunar Landing "

April 8, 2009 - Prof. Nergis Mavalvala, MIT, - "Searching for Gravitational Radiation on the Earth (LIGO) and in Space (LISA) "

April 15, 2009 - William Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations, "Transitioning from the Space Shuttle to Constellation " (2009 Space Grant Annual Distinguished Lecturer)

April 22, 2009 - Prof. Sara Seager, MIT, "Extrasolar Planets and the Search for Habitable Worlds "

April 29, 2009 - Dr. Ian Garrick-Bethel, Brown University, "Search for Paleomagnetism in the Moon "

May 6, 2009 - Ed Hodgson, Hamilton Sundstrand, - "Space Suit - A Human-Sized Spacecraft"

 

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