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The Future of Space Flight

via Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

Sept. 5, 2024

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Robotic spacecrafts? Manned missions to Mars? Affordable tourist trips to the stars? New life found? What is the likely future of space flight?

Host Guru Madhavan pilots a soaring, speculative conversation with:

Major General Charles F. Bolden Jr., who in 2009 was appointed NASA Administrator by President Obama, making him only the second astronaut to hold that position.

Professor Dava Newman, aerospace engineer, director of the MIT Media Lab, and holder of the Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics chair at MIT.

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