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-4 posts tagged "outer space"
Peter Breen | Monday, April 11, 2022
In the sixth installment of this year’s ‘Ten Years Hence’ lecture series, the Mendoza College of Business welcomed NASA physicist Marina Brozović Friday morning to speak on the risks asteroids pose to human beings and the opportunities these spinning space rocks may supply our species. Born and raised in Split, Croatia, Brozović earned her doctoral
Gabby Beechert | Monday, April 4, 2022
University of Hawai’i astronomy professor Robert Jedicke discussed his involvement in the burgeoning asteroid mining industry during the fifth installment of the Ten Years Hence “Life Beyond Earth” lecture series Friday morning. “What we want to do is get water from the moon or from asteroids, use the water to fuel the spacecraft which we
Gabby Beechert | Tuesday, February 15, 2022
In the third installment of this year’s “Ten Years Hence” lecture series themed “Life Beyond Earth,” Lt. Gen. William J. Liquori discussed the creation of Space Force and its plans for dealing with international space threats. Liquori spoke with Notre Dame professor James O’Rourke via Zoom webinar Friday morning. Liquori is the USSF deputy chief
Emma Farnan | Thursday, February 12, 2015
Throughout human history, brave explorers have answered the call to venture into the unknown, risking life and limb to expand humans’ interaction with the world around us. Everyone remembers Christopher Columbus, who is credited with discovering the “New World” in 1492, as well as Lewis and Clark who made the perilous journey to the Pacific