ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY: FROM CINEMA TO REALITY (Beyond Earth Inst), Jan 18, 2023, virtual, 1:00-2:30 pm ET

Update, January 12: The list of participants has been updated.

• Moderator: Mike DeRosa, Marketing and Media, Co-Founder, Gravitics
• Tarek Waked, Founding Partner, Type One Ventures
• Peter Garretson, Head, Space Horizons Research Task Force
• Dr. Janani Iyer, Research Scientist, USRA/NASA Ames, Author of Cells Report
• Dr. Siddhita Mhatre, Senior Scientist, KBR/NASA Ames, Author of Cells Report
• Chris Lewicki, Co-founder and CEO of gravityLab

Original Entry: The Beyond Earth Institute will hold a webinar on January 18, 2023 from 1:00-2:30 pm ET on “Artificial Gravity: From Cinema to Reality.”

More information and registration instructions are on the event’s website, which says:

As the global space community makes a return to the moon and sets its sight on Mars and beyond, an exciting new era of deep space, long-duration crewed space exploration and development is upon us. However, as promising as our journeys beyond Earth orbit will be, they will also carry significant health challenges for future explorers and pioneers – not least of which is body-degrading long-term exposure to microgravity. As a recent NASA Ames study concluded, one promising countermeasure for upcoming deep space missions is artificial gravity aboard journey-bound craft.

The concept is far from novel. From Discovery’s rotating centrifuge in “2001: A Space Odyssey” to Mark Whitney’s Mars-bound Hermes in “The Martian,” artificial gravity in space has long been in the public imagination. Scientists have been studying the concept since the start of the Space Age; and, though it didn’t come to fruition, there were even formal efforts to include an artificial gravity module – the “Nautilus X” – on the International Space Station. Today, innovative companies such as Gravitics and Axiom Space are actively developing stations designed around the artificial gravity environment.

The future expansion of humanity into the depths of the solar system will very likely rely on artificial gravity, and the time is ripe to start demonstrating the capability. This Beyond Earth panel brings together the leading experts and executives studying and deploying artificial gravity in space for a compelling conversation on the opportunities and challenges involved in the technology, as well as the vision for its future.

Speakers:

Moderator: Mike DeRosa, Marketing and Media, Co-Founder, Gravitics

Tarek Waked, Founding Partner, Type One Ventures

Peter Garretson, Head, Space Horizons Research Task Force

Dr. Janani Iyer, Research Scientist, USRA/NASA Ames, Author of Cells Report

Dr. Siddhita Mhatre, Senior Scientist, KBR/NASA Ames, Author of Cells Report