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Topic: 10/22-24: MIT AeroAstro 100 symposium (MA)
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-21-2014 08:47 AM
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
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