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Human Spaceflight - Where are we going?

A Game Changers Seminars talk held by Claude Nicollier and presented by the International Space Science Institute

Time

17:00

The Game Changers Seminars series presents ideas and findings about the solar system, the universe and our terrestrial environment

Die beiden Astronauten, C. Michael Foale, links und Claude Nicollier (auf dem Roboterarm der Discovery) während der Hubble Servicing Mission im Dezember 1999.
Image: ESA/NASA

Human spaceflight has been conducted for more than six decades with a multiplicity of objectives. In the early days the goal was essentially political, with the idea to demonstrate superiority in technical and operational capabilities. With the Apollo program and the early space stations operated by the US (Skylab) and the Soviet Union, there was a definite shift towards the use of human space missions for the conduct of scientific research. This shift was clearly continued with the Space Shuttle, and consolidated with the International Space Station. Today we see new components in human spaceflight, with the involvement of private companies, essentially in the US, space tourism (suborbital and orbital), and plans for inhabited space missions to the Moon in a few years, and later to Mars.

This talk will not be scientific or technical, but will present the different components, the current status, and future plans of human space missions. The personal experience of the speaker in space, and in particular work performed on the Hubble Space Telescope in Low Earth Orbit, will also be presented.

Claude Nicollier was selected in 1978 in the first group of astronauts of the European Space Agency (ESA), then was detached to the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, for full training as Mission Specialist on the US Space Shuttle, following an agreement between ESA and NASA. He served as a crewmember on four Shuttle missions between 1992 and 1999, including two on-orbit interventions on the Hubble Space Telescope. He spent a total of more than 1000 hours in space during these four missions.

The International Space Science Institute started its first online Seminar series last summer 2020.

Zoom Link for the talk.
Meeting ID: 852 6990 9362, Passwort: 459004

Intended for

Age:
  • 14-18
  • 18+
  • 20-40
  • 55+

Activity

Content: medium

Interactivity: passive

Inside/outside: inside

Categories

Languages: English
Weather dependent? No
Does it cost anything? No