TENTH ANNUAL ISAAC ASIMOV MEMORIAL DEBATE 3/15 @ AMNH in NYC

By Ben on February 24, 2010 at 12:48 pm | In Blog Posts | No Comments

for anyone who happens to be in NYC next Mar 15th.

wonder how long till the podcast is posted?

http://www.amnh.org/podcast/index.html

–Ben

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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY’S

TENTH ANNUAL ISAAC ASIMOV MEMORIAL DEBATE

ASKS “Where Next for the Manned Space Program?”

WHAT Tenth Annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate Moon, Mars and Beyond: Where next for the manned space program?

What is the future direction for manned space flight? Should we proceed straight to Mars? Should we return to the Moon, or should multiple destinations be the goal?

Where to go next is one of the hottest topics for NASA’s manned program. Central to the subject are thorny issues that relate to science, launch hardware, international competition, national security, shrinking budgets, and political will. The Obama administration’s recent decision to delay indefinitely of our next voyage to Moon while simultaneously planning a new launch vehicle to take us out of low earth orbit makes this Asimov Debate particularly topical and newsworthy.

Moderator

Neil deGrasse Tyson, astronomer and Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium

Panelists

Kenneth Ford, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, is Chairman of the

NASA Advisory Council.

Lester Lyles, United States Air Force (Ret), is a member of NASA’s Human

Space Flight Plans Committee.

Paul Spudis, Lunar and Planetary Institute, has experiments on lunar orbiting

missions to map permanently dark regions poles and search for water ice

deposits.

Steven Squyres, Cornell University, is the principal investigator for the Mars

Exploration Rover Project, among others.

Robert Zubrin, founder of the Mars Society, with a focus on exploration and

settlement of that planet, is also the President of Pioneer Astronautics, an

aerospace research and development company.

WHEN Monday March 15, 7:30 p.m.

WHERE LeFrak Theater, first floor – Enter at 77th Street

American Museum of Natural History

ADMISSION $15 adults $13.50 members, students, seniors

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No. 25a

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