Thursday Session

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• Opening Address

His Excellency Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India:  
Space Exploration and Human Life (PDF Video)

• Keynote Address

  Lord Rees of Ludlow (Prof. Martin J.), HM Astronomer Royal; President of the Royal Society, Cambridge, UK:   
  The Future of Space Exploration and Exploitation (PowerPoint Video)

• Luncheon Speaker

  Yevgeny Zvedre, Head, Science and Technology Office, Embassy of the Russian Federation:   
  Lessons of the Russian-US Cooperation in Space (PowerPoint Video)

• Session 1: The Future of Human Space Flight

  Moderator: Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman, Professor, Aerospace Engineering, MIT; Shuttle Astronaut, Endeavour and Discovery (Video)

  Dr. Roald Sagdeev Director Emeritus, Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Maryland:
  Legacy of Sputnik and "friendly" competition between the piloted and robotic approaches of Space Age (PowerPoint Video)

  Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ: 
  Honest marketing of human activities in space (Video)

  Harrison Schmitt, Chair, NASA Advisory Council; Astronaut, Apollo 17: 
  Realism in the Expansion of the Earth's Economic Sphere to include the moon (PowerPoint Video)

• Session 2: The Future of Science

  Moderator: Dr. Roger M. Bonnet, President, COSPAR;
  Executive Director, International Space Science Institute (Video)

  Dr. C. Z. (Frank) Cheng, Chief Scientist, National Space Org; Director, Plasma and Space Science Center,National Cheng-Kung University Taiwan, ROC: 
  Space Science in Solar System and Earthly Problems (PowerPoint Video)

  Dr. Keith Mason, Chief Executive Officer, Science & Technology Facilities Council: 
  Space Science and the Engines of Change (PowerPoint Video)

  Dr. John C. Mather, Nobel Prize Winner (Physics) 2006; Senior Astrophysicist, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA:
  Creating the Future of Science from Space (PowerPoint Video)

• Youth Vision Session:   Aiming Ahead: Next Generation Visions for the Next 50 Years in Space (PowerPoint Video)

  Overview: Mark Lupisella, Engineer and Scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

     Panelists:
        Chris Boshuizen:
        Shi Heng
        Tiffany Frierson

• Dinner Speaker

  Harrison Schmitt, Chair, NASA Advisory Council; Astronaut, Apollo 17:
  A Trip to the Moon (PowerPoint Video)

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