OUR LUNAR FUTURE (NYAS), Dec 9, 2020, virtual, 7:00-8:30 pm ET

The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) will hold a webinar on December 9, 2020 from 7:00-8:30 pm ET on “Our Lunar Future.”

The organizers provide this information:

This program will discuss NASA’s Artemis mission to orbit and then land on the lunar surface. Participants will explore scientific goals, and how establishing a more permanent human presence at the moon may serve as a stepping-stone to Mars. Speakers will also discuss how we establish international legal agreements “off-planet.”

The panelists will be:

• Timiebi Aganaba-Jeanty, PhD, LLM, with the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. Dr. Aganaba-Jeanty is an expert on space law.  Her research explores diversity among decision-makers for planned systems of space governance.
• Dina Contella, Operations Integration and Utilization Manager for NASA’s Gateway program. Gateway is a planned orbiting outpost near the Moon that will support surface landing missions. Ms. Contella is a former Mission Control Flight Director at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
• Dorit Donoviel, PhD, Director of Translational research institute for space health and associate professor in the center for space medicine at Baylor college of Medicine. Dr. Donoviel is a leader in the search for approaches to human space exploration that reduce risk to human health and performance

More information is on the event’s website.