Forum on the Future of Human Spaceflight

May 8, 2009 8:30am - 12:00pm

Center for Strategic and International Studies

1800 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006


The MIT Space, Policy and Society research group and the GW Space Policy Institute presented a forum on the rationales and objectives of human spaceflight, hosted by the CSIS.

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Panel 1: Objectives of human spaceflight

- Prof. David Mindell Director, MIT
- Prof. Jeffrey Hoffman, MIT
- Prof. Asif Siddiqi, Fordham University
- Dr. Dan Lester, University of Texas, Austin (slides)
- Mark Craig, SAIC NASA Account Manager (slides)

Panel 2: Human spaceflight and national priorities

- Prof. Scott Pace, GW Space Policy Institute
- Wayne Hale, NASA
- John Tylko, Aurora Flight Sciences
- Dr. Scott Uebelhart, MIT


Closing remarks: Dr. John Logsdon, National Air and Space Museum

 

 

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