Solar system Exploration @ 50
09.14.12
On Oct. 25-26, 2012, the NASA History Program Office, NASA's Science Mission Directorate, the National Air and Space Museum, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will host a symposium to mark the 50th anniversary planetary exploration. The event will be held at the Lockheed Martin Global Vision Center, 2121 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA (in the Crystal City complex). Participation is free and open to the public, although registration will be required. A registration website will be available soon.
Planned Program
Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012
Keynote Speech: Peter Westwick (University of Southern California): Exploring the Solar System: Who
has done it, how, and why?
Panel #1: Politics and Policy in the Conduct of Solar System Exploration
Panel Chair: Marcia Smith (Space and Technology Policy Group)
Dwayne Day (National Research Council): The National Research Council’s Role in the
American Planetary Exploration Program.
Roger Handberg (University of Central Florida): The Politics of Pure Space Science, the
Essential Tension, Human Spaceflight’s Impact on Scientific Exploration
Jason W. Callahan (The Tauri Group): Funding Planetary Science: History and Political
Economy
John M. Logsdon (George Washington University) and Andre Bormanis (Independent
Writer/Producer): The Survival Crisis of The Planetary Program
Lunch Keynote Speaker - James L. Green (NASA): NASA’s Solar System Exploration Paradigm: The
First Fifty Years and a Look at the Next Fifty
Panel #2: The Lure of the Red Planet
Panel Chair: Janet Vertesi (Princeton University)
Richard W. Zurek (JPL): Mars After 50 Years Of Space Exploration: Then, Now, and
Beyond
David Grinspoon (Denver Museum of Nature & Science): Evolving Concepts Of
Planetary Habitability In The Age Of Planetary Exploration
Erik M. Conway (JPL): Dreaming Of Mars Sample Return, From Viking To The Mars
Science Laboratory
W. Henry Lambright (Syracuse University): NASA, Big Science, And Mars Exploration:
Critical Decisions From Goldin To Bolden
Panel #3: Public Perceptions, Priorities, and Solar System Exploration
Panel Chair: Heidi Hammel (Space Science Institute)
Linda Billings (George Washington University): Survivor(?): The Story Of s. Mitis On
The Moon
William R. Macauley (Freie Universität Berlin): ‘Instant Science’: Space Probes,
Planetary Exploration And Televisual Media
Laura Delgado López (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies): Killer Asteroids:
Popular Depictions and Public Policy Influence
Giny Cheong (George Mason University): Voyager: Exploring Through the Public Eye
Friday, Oct. 26, 2012
Keynote Speech: Wesley T. Huntress, Jr. (NASA Advisory Committee) and Mikhail Marov (Keldysh
Institute): First On The Moon, Venus And Mars: The Soviet Planetary Exploration
Enterprise
Panel 4: Exploring the Outer Solar System
Panel Chair: Ralph McNutt (Applied Physics Laboratory) [invited]
Torrence V. Johnson (JPL): Outer Solar System Exploration: An Archetype Of The
Scientific Method
Fernando Peralta (JPL): The Voyagers – Managing Aging Spacecraft During Their
Interstellar Mission
Arturo Russo (University of Palermo): Europe’s Rendezvous With Titan” The European
Space Agency’s Contribution in The Cassini-Huygens Mission To The Saturnian System
Robert Pappalardo (JPL): Revealing Europa’s Ocean
Panel #5: Institutional Arrangements in Solar System Exploration
Panel Chair: Joan Johnson-Freese (U.S. Naval War College)
J.D. Burke (JPL): Foundations Of Solar System Exploration At JPL: How The First
Mariners And Rangers Built Them
John Sarkissian (CSIRO): Mariner 2 And The CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope: Fifty
Years Of International Collaboration
Michael Neufeld (National Air and Space Museum): Transforming Solar System
Exploration: The Applied Physics Laboratory and the Origins of the Discovery Program,
1989-1993
Petar Markovski (University of Oklahoma): International Cooperation In Solar System
Exploration: The Cases Of Ulysses And Giotto
Panel #6: Roundtable – From the Past to the Future
Moderator: Andrew Chaikin (Independent Space Historian)
Glenn E. Bugos (Ames Research Center): Precursor Missions: The Science Of What
Comes Next
Amy Paige Kaminski (NASA): Faster, Better, Cheaper: A Sociotechnical Perspective On
The Meanings Of Success And Failure In NASA’s Solar System Exploration Program
G. Scott Hubbard (Stanford University): Exploring Mars: Following the Water
Chas Beichman (Caltech): The search for and study of extra-solar planets:
Extending planetary science into the realm of classical astronomy