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Deep space
Lift 11 Session
February 4, 2011 - 15:45With space tourism right around the corners, space is becoming an increasingly tangible possibility for more people on the planet. What are the current challenges and research going on in that field? This session will be about designing for spatial habitat, studying the sun, listening to space and the conquest of space.
Presentations
Programming space habitat
Jennifer Magnolfi (Herman Miller , USA)Jennifer talks about the design process for space habitats, how designers and engineers approach the creation of space habitats for the extreme conditions offered by life in ...
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Researching and studying the sun
Lucie Green (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK)The Sun is our closest and most important star, and is important to study because of its major impact on our planet, and therefore on our lives. This talk looks at the latest ...
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Listening to the sound of space
Honor Harger (Lighthouse, New Zealand)Honor Harger is working on broadcasting what Pythagoras and Johannes Kepler called "the music of the spheres", the "sounds" that extra-celestial bodies like the sun or planets ...
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The reality of space
Claude Nicollier (EPFL, Switzerland)Why should we continue to explore space? What are the next frontiers to be crossed in the coming years? What is the democratization of space going to bring to the world? Astronaut ...
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Comments
Claude Nicollier has participated to a report I've realised last year on that subject for the RTS TV show Nouvo: http://www.nouvo.ch/2010/12/vacances-spatiales
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