{"id":116,"date":"2025-06-05T13:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:06:19","slug":"orbital-event","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/previous-book\/orbital-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Thank you for joining our conversation on space, humanity, and exploration at the Common Read Fireside Chat.<\/h3>\n<div class=\" bu-callout aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"margin-top: 0;\">Event Recap:<\/h4>\n<h5>Wednesday, February 25, 5:30 pm \u2013 7:00 pm<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.bu.edu\/?id=647#!m\/611347?s\/Tsai?mc\/42.350262,-71.104553?z\/16?lvl\/0?share\">Tsai Performance Center (685 Commonwealth Avenue)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Melissa Gilliam moderated the evening\u2019s panel, guiding a deep and engaging conversation between three distinguished experts. The discussion featured a inside look into BU Library&#8217;s archives on space, media and more, a diverse range of perspectives from the esteemed panelists, and a lively Q+A with thought provoking questions from BU&#8217;s students. Panelists included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jenny Gruber, PhD (ENG \u201899, \u201899): NASA Engineer at the NASA Johnson Space Center.<\/li>\n<li>Bob Hines, MS (ENG \u201897): NASA Astronaut.<\/li>\n<li>Sujin Pak, PhD: Dean of the School of Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/common-read\/files\/2026\/03\/3-636x424.png\" alt=\"Panel photo of President Gilliam, Space Engineer Jenny Gruber, NASA astronaut Bob Hines (ENG\u201997), and STH Dean Dr. G. Sujin Pak talking about the book\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/files\/2026\/03\/3-636x424.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/files\/2026\/03\/3-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/files\/2026\/03\/3-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/files\/2026\/03\/3-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/files\/2026\/03\/3.png 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/common-read\/files\/2026\/03\/2-636x424.png\" alt=\"Stacks of the book orbital piled on top of one another\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/files\/2026\/03\/2-636x424.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/files\/2026\/03\/2-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/files\/2026\/03\/2-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/files\/2026\/03\/2-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/files\/2026\/03\/2.png 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for joining our conversation on space, humanity, and exploration at the Common Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions\/583"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}