Are we ready to go to space? Hear from leading experts about the ethics and legal implications of exploring, colonizing and living in outer space.
In conjunction with the exhibit, Home Beyond Earth, the Museum will hold a stellar symposium looking at some of the sticky issues of exploring, colonizing and living in outer space. Panelists include world-renowned space lawyer and co-founder of For All Moonkind, Michelle Hanlon; space settlement expert and co-author of A City on Mars, Kelly Weinersmith; Capt. Liberty Shockley, a reservist to the Assured Access to Space program; with moderator space futurist Chris Lewicki. A book signing will follow the event.
Event Details
Date: Saturday September 14, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Panelists
Michelle Hanlon
Executive Director of the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, and co-founder of For All Moonkind, a non-profit organization that seeks to protect each of the six human lunar landing and similar sites in outer space as part of our common human heritage.
Kelly Weinersmith
Best-selling author, scientist and recently co-author of the entertaining and troubling A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
Capt. Liberty Shockley
Air Force Reservist supporting U.S. Space Force Assured Access to Space on a variety of projects concerning military doctrine, US policy, and advanced technologies for our space programs. Her military and civilian career has led her to primarily work at the intersection of space technology and space law.
Moderator
Chris Lewicki
A key member of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers and the Phoenix Mars Lander, who served as Flight Director for the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. He co-founded and was CEO of Planetary Resources Inc. focused on the prospecting, development and use of resources found on near-Earth asteroids. Today he is a “near-futurist” contributing to numerous space organizations.
This event is FREE with Membership and included with general admission.
Presented as part of the Museum's new Home Beyond Earth exhibition.
Image credit: NASA
