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June 2, 2004
To: Campus Community
From: UCSC Public Information Office
Re: Free Lecture: Space Exploration--The Moon & Mars
All campus members are invited to attend:
The Spring Foundation Forum
Thursday, June 3, 3:30 p.m. Multipurpose Room, Colleges Nine and Ten.
Space Exploration: The Moon & Mars - A Vision of the Future by Scott Hubbard, Director of NASA Ames Research Center
Presented by Acting Chancellor Martin M. Chemers and the UC Santa Cruz Foundation
In 2000, Hubbard served as the first NASA Mars program director and successfully restructured the entire Mars program in the wake of mission failures. Hubbard was the first director of NASA's Astrobiology Institute, was NASA's mission manager for Lunar Prospector, and is credited with conceiving the Mars Pathfinder mission. He recently served as the sole NASA representative on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.
Faculty Panel Discussion will follow:
Moderator: Robert Miller, Vice Chancellor for Research
David Deamer, Professor, Biomolecular Engineering (Research in Life Detection in Space)
Gabriel Elkaim, Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering (Research in Robotics)
Ali Shakouri, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering (Research in Energy Harvesting)
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