SISC presentation :The Society for International Space Exploration is a new private organization that promotes Space Science education and activities. In this speech Michael Slage, President of SISC, will speak about their projects and activities, like the International Space Corps and International Space Resource Centers. 

MIR: "A review at the edge of its end" :  At the moment there is only one operating space station. This speech will examine the past present and future role and importance of Mir.

The future of Moon Exploration:  In this Speech Ignasi Casanova (IEEC) will talk about strategies to establish manned bases on the Moon. We'll take a look at the challenges and promise of these type of projects including Lunar ice water, and even how to make lunar concrete!. We'll also see the activities of the IEEC.

 

 

The future of manned missions:  Are manned missions the best way to explore the solar system?. What are the benefits and drawbacks of human crewed expeditions of discovery.

 

The Dream is Alive: The famous IMAX movie about the Space Shuttle, with terrific images of pilot training, and missions.
  

"Searching for clues of life in Europa":  Jupiter's moon Europa is a source of news related to the possibility of life outside the Earth. The Galileo probe has brought new stunning pictures of Europa's surface, with more data that are in fact clear clues of a liquid water ocean under its icy surface. In this speech we'll review some of this advances as well as talk about the Spektra students project as an example of how to make real science by accessing Internet resources. 

"SETI advances": SETI (Search for Extraterrial Intelligence") is an activity that is not dead as many think, but going on with projects like Phoenix and BETA. We'll see fragments of the movie "Contact", and talk on-line with Guillermo Lemarchand, head of the META project and a leading SETI scientist.
 

 
"The future of Mars Exploration": Mars fever has just begun. We are still enjoying the success of the Mars Pathfinder mission, and just starting to watch the Global Surveyor's results. We'll talk about the future of unmanned missions to the red planet as well as projects to bring humans to. We'll have the on-line presence of one of JPL's Mars Pathfinder team members to answer questions.

Space and Science Workshops and Demonstrations: This is the time for fun and educational activities: Science experiments for kids and teachers, and also demonstrations of computer education programs and simulation games such as "Outpost", and CD-ROMs about space exploration and astronomy.
 

Space Movie:  "Mission to Mir"

 Internet debate: "Beyond the Solar System": Live debate about the search for new planets beyond our system, as well as an introduction to Interstellar travel. In this debate we'll have the presence again of all the speakers from Tuesday.
 

Visit to Castelldefels Observatory: We'll visit the new amateur Astronomic observatory of Castelldefels. It is one of the first amateur telescopes to be tele-operated in Spain. We'll try to make some observations, and show the basic concepts of watching the sky. 

Visit to "Cité de L'espace": We'll take a tour to this amusement park in Toulouse. The Ariane 5, Planetarium, Large IMAX screen movies... If you wanna see what's in store in Cité de L'Espace, check out their web site.
 
 
 

 

 

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Speakers

• Ignasi Casanova:  Civil Engineer at UPC (Polytech University of Catalunya). He's also senior researcher at IEEC (Catalan Space Institute). His works are about the making of lunar concrete. He's also coordinator of Planetary Science and engineering studies at UPC.
  
  
• Mark Kidger: Astrophysicist at IAC (Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute). Now he's working on the placement of future Isaac Newton observatory in La Palma. His specialty is Quasars. At this time he's cooperating so mcuh in astronomy divulgation writing for review UNIVERSO in Spain, specially in stories related to Mars.
  
  
• Jordi Llorca: Senior Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at University of Barcelona. He has work on searching for organic chemical compounds on Solar System bodies like asteroids or comets. He's writing divulgation articles for UNIVERSO review.
  
  
• Manuel Montes: Scientific journalist. He specializes in astronautic themes (Space probes, Space Station, space Shuttle,...)
  
  
• Guillermo Lemarchand: Astrophysic by Universidad de Buenos Aires. At this time he's working as supervisor of the Planetary Society's project META. He's one of the leading personalities in SETI in the world.
  
  
• Louis Friedman: The executive director of The Planetary Society, co-founded The Planetary Society in 1980 with Carl Sagan and Bruce Murray.