Event Essentials
- Date:
- March 16, 2013
- Time:
- 1:00 PM
- Tickets:
- This Inventive Genius Lecture is FREE for Household Premium and Donor Society members, and available to other members at discounted member rates.
- Cost:
- Free for Doctorate and donor societies.
Member adult: $8, Member child $4,
Member guests $10.
Join us for a talk with two award-winning scientists, Dr. Gregory Scott and Michael V. Paul. Dr. Scott is with the United States Naval Research Laboratory and has a Ph.D. in space robotics. His research focuses on powering robots with bacteria. Michael Paul is a space systems engineer with experience on systems flown to the innermost planet, Mercury, to Earth’s orbit, and out to the farther reaches of our solar system. Michael is leading the PSU Applied Research Laboratory’s efforts in developing a space mission leadership capability in the emerging private space exploration industry. Both researchers received Phase I funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program.
INSPIRING INNOVATION
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program is run from NASA Headquarters in the Office of the Chief Technologist’s Space Technology Program. The NIAC program funds and nurtures visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions with the creation of innovative, advanced technology breakthroughs while engaging America's innovators and entrepreneurs as partners in the journey. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/niac.
Tickets
Free for Doctorate and donor societies.
Member adult: $8, Member child $4,
Member guests $10.
Register for this event online or by calling (773) 684-1414.
Special Offer for Members: Half-Off NASA Lecture Tickets!
Attend both the March 16 NASA lecture From Science Fiction to Science Fact at 1 p.m. and the Animal Inside Out Member Private Viewing later that day, and you'll receive half-off NASA lecture tickets as well as early time slots for the exhibition viewing. You must register for both member events by phone at (773) 684-1414 to receive the discount. Tickets for the dual offer are limited.
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