{"id":1071,"date":"2018-02-06T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/jdosas\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2019-02-14T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T19:41:16","slug":"second-colloquium-presentation-on-february-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/jdosas\/2018\/02\/second-colloquium-presentation-on-february-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Colloquium Presentation on February 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring 2018 Space Studies Colloquium Series focuses on CisLunar infrastructure<em>,<\/em> and will feature several leading experts in this field.\u00a0 Please join us for the second presentation in this series that will feature <strong>Dr. George Sowers<\/strong>, Professor of Practice Strategic Initiatives for the Space Resources Program at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presentation Title:<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Creating the Cislunar Economy<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong>\u00a0 Monday, February 26, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong>\u00a0 4:00 p.m. (Central time)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ryan Hall, Room 111<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the topic: <\/strong>The development and utilization of space resources will enable an economic transformation for humankind on par with the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution.\u00a0 The development and utilization of space resources will liberate humankind from the resource constraints of a finite earth and usher an era of unprecedented economic growth and prosperity.\u00a0 The first steps along this road are the development of the resources of the Moon and near-Earth asteroids to create a self-sustaining economy in cislunar space.\u00a0 The first economically viable resource in cislunar space will be rocket propellant from water mined on the Moon or asteroids.\u00a0 Recent research at the Colorado School of Mines shows that mining water for propellant in the permanently shadowed regions of the Moon is feasible at costs that can meet the requirements of a purely commercial business case.\u00a0 Once space-sourced propellants are available, the cost of transportation in cislunar space plummets enabling other space businesses to become viable.\u00a0 Space based solar power, beaming unlimited clean energy to Earth, is just one example.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the speaker<\/strong>: Dr. George Sowers has 30 years of experience in the space transportation field working for Martin Marietta, Lockheed Martin and the United Launch Alliance (ULA). In 2017, he retired from his position as Vice President and Chief Scientist at ULA where his team developed an architecture for fully reusable in-space stages fueled by propellant mined, refined and distributed in space. Dr. Sowers has now joined the faculty of the Colorado School of Mines as part of a newly created graduate program in space resources.\u00a0 He holds a BS in Physics from Georgia Tech and a PhD in Physics from the University of Colorado.\u00a0 Dr. Sowers is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>===============================================================================================<\/p>\n<p>A live webcast will be available <a href=\"http:\/\/realmedia.aero.und.edu\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Adobe Connect webcast is available <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.aero.und.edu\/spst590\/\">here<\/a>. Questions for the speaker may be posted at this site during the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Colloquium presentations will be added to the space.edu colloquium <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.edu\/colloquium.aspx\">website<\/a> after the live event for later viewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring 2018 Space Studies Colloquium Series focuses on CisLunar infrastructure, and will feature several leading experts in this field.\u00a0 Please join us for the second presentation in this series that will feature Dr. George Sowers, Professor of Practice Strategic Initiatives for the Space Resources Program at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. 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