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Today at Langley Research Center: “First to Mars – Viking Precedents and Culture” with Rachel Tillman

Friday, July 11
Talk from 4–5:30 PM Eastern Time Q&A: 5:30–6 PM Eastern Time
Pearl Young Theater at NASA’s Langley Research Center

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Steven Hirshorn Presents on Life Lessons from the Columbia Tragedy and NASA’s Return to Flight— Tuesday, July 22

 


Tuesday, July 22 at 12:00 pm EDT / 11:00 am CDT / 10:00 am PDT

July 26, 2025, marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of STS-114, the Return to Flight mission launched two and a half years after the Columbia tragedy. In memory of the event, the NASA History Office is pleased to present a talk by Steven Hirshorn, author of a new book in the NASA History Series entitled Ascension: Life Lessons from the Space Shuttle Columbia Tragedy for Engineers, Managers, and Leaders.

Hirshorn, currently NASA’s Chief Engineer for Aeronautics, will discuss his experiences as the mission operations representative to the Space Shuttle Orbiter Project Office on the day Columbia and its crew were lost. He describes NASA’s sobering work in search of answers in the wake of the tragedy, and the crucial technical and organizational changes that needed to take place for the Space Shuttle Program to resume.

With technical expertise and deeply human, visceral insight, Hirshorn condenses simply stated life lessons valuable to the engineers, managers, and leaders advancing human spaceflight today.

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Join Us on July 24: Julie Klinger Presents “China–Latin America Space Cooperation: A Brief History”

 

 

“China-Latin America Space Cooperation: A Brief History”

Julie Klinger (Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and University of Delaware)
Thursday, July 24 at 2:00 pm EDT / 1:00 pm CDT / 11:00 am PDT

Neither the evolution of global space politics, nor the evolving nature of China-Latin America relations can be understood without considering the roles played by Latin America's and China's space programs in national, bilateral, and multilateral engagements. This talk provides a brief historical overview of bilateral outer space cooperation between China and Latin American countries. Multilateral engagements by all parties shaped the dawn of the space age in the 1960s, while bilateral engagements date back to 1984.

Julie Michelle Klinger is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware. Dr. Klinger and her research team conduct in-depth field-based and global-scope research on competing uses for energy-transition metals, materials, and infrastructures. She has published numerous articles on rare earth elements, natural resource use, environmental politics, and outer space, including the award-winning 2018 book Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.

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