Meet NASA innovators with visionary ideas powering new missions to the most extreme environments in and out of our solar system!
This online event features two futuristic concepts for our next frontiers of space exploration. As NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Fellows, the scientists behind these projects are creating innovative, technically credible, advanced concepts that could one day "change the possible" in aerospace.
- Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., former astronaut and Texas A&M University professor, will discuss her work on developing a custom-made spacesuit for Mars.
- John Mather, Ph.D., Nobel Prize winner and senior astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, will discuss his work on a hybrid observatory that could examine Earth-like exoplanets.
MSI is proud to present From Science Fiction to Science Fact as the latest edition of a long-running partnership with NIAC.
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Presenters
These NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellows will describe the latest advances in their work, discuss the discoveries that could come from these projects and take questions from curious audience members about the future of space exploration.
Dr. Bonnie Dunbar
Bonnie J. Dunbar, Ph.D. is a retired NASA astronaut, engineer and educator, and Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering with Texas A&M College of Engineering. She flew five times on the Space Shuttle, and twice as an EVA astronaut. Her first-person experiences with Spacesuit design and operations have inspired her to explore and create the EVA suits of the future.
Dr. John Mather
John C. Mather, Ph.D. is a Civil Servant and Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as the Senior Project Scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope. He was the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics, together with George F. Smoot, for their work using the COBE satellite to measure the heat radiation from the Big Bang.
