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MIT's Aeronautics and Astronautics Department is celebrating its centennial this week with a symposium in Massachusetts.

The three-day event will be webcast live here.

Of particular interest may be the following sessions:

  • Oct. 22

    1:45 p.m. EDT (1745 GMT) — Keynote address: Tom Crouch, Senior Curator, Aeronautics Department, National Air and Space Museum

    3:00 p.m. EDT (1945 GMT) — Apollo panel discussions:

    • Jeffrey Hoffman, AeroAstro Professor of the Practice and former astronaut, MIT (co-moderator)
    • Laurence R. Young, Apollo Program Professor Emeritus, MIT (co-moderator)
    • Buzz Aldrin (ScD '63) Gemini 12, Apollo 11
    • Karol "Bo" Bobko, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project support crew, Shuttle missions STS-6, STS 51-D, STS 51-J;
    • Michael Collins, Gemini 10, Apollo 11;
    • Vance Brand, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, STS-5, STS 41-B, STS-35;
    • Philip Chapman (SM '64, ScD '67)
    • Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7
    • Charlie Duke (SM '64), Apollo 16
    • Rusty Schweickart (SB '56, SM '63), Apollo 9

  • Oct. 24

    10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT) — Question and answer with MIT alumni active and retired Shuttle/ISS astronauts:

    • Dava Newman (moderator), Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, Director of Technology and Policy Program, MacVicar Faculty Fellow
    • Dominic Antonelli
    • Kenneth Cameron
    • Christopher Cassidy
    • Catherine Coleman
    • Franklin Chang-Diaz
    • E. Michael Fincke
    • Jack Fischer
    • John Grunsfeld
    • Jeffrey Hoffman
    • Michael Massimino
    • William Shepherd

    12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT) — One-on-one with Elon Musk, CEO and Co-Founder, SpaceX and Tesla

All times are CT (US)

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