Newswise New York, NY, December 7, 2020 The New York Academy of Sciences is hosting two programs on Space Exploration this week, with topics including legal agreements for off planet governance, bioengineering to make space travel safer for astronauts, and questions of bio-ethics related to interplanetary travel. Our Lunar Future, will be held on Wednesday evening, December 9, and a day-long technical symposium, Bioengineering for Space, will be held on Thursday, December 10.
Our Lunar Future Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 7 PM 8:30 PM EST
This program will discuss NASAs Artemis mission to orbit and then land on the lunar surface. Participants will explore scientific goals, and how establishing a more permanent human presence at the moon may serve as a stepping-stone to Mars. Speakers will also discuss how we establish international legal agreements off-planet.
The panelists will be:
This program will be moderated by Kari Fischer, PhD, New York Academy of Sciences.
For more information, please see: https://www.nyas.org/events/2020/webinar-our-lunar-future/.
Bioengineering for Space Thursday, December 10, 2020; 11:15 AM 4:40 PM EST.
This symposium will present research on gene editing and synthetic biology that may be used to overcome human limitations during long term spaceflight. The keynote speaker will be Anousheh Ansari of the XPRIZE Foundation.
Leading scientists will be speaking on topics that include:
The symposium will also feature panel discussions on questions of bio-ethics raised by space research and space travel. Will it be ethical to change the human genome to increase resistance to radiation and other hazards in space? Who gets to make decisions about space travel, acceptable risk, and the privatization of space? What responsibilities do scientists and astronauts have to avoid altering the genetic environment of lands we may seek to inhabit?
Speakers will also include: Martine Rothblatt, PhD, JD, MBA, United Therapeutics; Mark Weyland, MS, NASA; R. Alta Charo, JD, University of Wisconsin Law School; Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum; and John Rummel, PhD, Friday Harbor Partners, LLC.
This program will be moderated by Kari Fischer, PhD, New York Academy of Sciences.
For more information, please see: https://www.nyas.org/events/2020/webinar-bioengineering-for-space/
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