The Next 50 Years in Space Exploration
Date posted: Friday 3 Feb 2012
Event Details:
| Date: | Tue 14 Feb 2012 |
| Time: | 18:30 - 19:30 |
| Venue: | Swinburne Hawthorn Campus Room BA121 Campus Location and Map |
| Register: | Register Online |
| Contact: | Elizabeth Thackray ethackray@swin.edu.au |
This public lecture is based on a current exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History that Dr Michael Shara has curated.
Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration offers a vision of the future of space travel as it boldly explores our next steps in our solar system and beyond. The exhibition takes visitors on humanity's journey to explore the next frontier, either ourselves or via robotic proxies, which have already traveled to every planet in our solar system.
Future missions highlighted in Beyond Planet Earth, once limited to the realm of science fiction but today discussed by leading scientists and engineers, include building a space elevator on the surface of the Moon, deflecting a hazardous near-Earth asteroid, and traveling to Mars - perhaps even establishing colonies there.
