Science by the Pint presents: Living off the Land on Mars
When:
Monday, May 08, 2017 6:30p -
8:30p
Monday, May 08, 2017 6:30p -
8:30p
Where:
The Burren
247 Elm Street
Somerville, MA 02144
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Alcohol, Date Idea, Food, Innovation, Lectures & Conferences, Tech, University
Event website:
SITNBoston.com/science-by-the-pint
Science by the Pint is a free science café in which we invite a Boston-area research lab out to a pub or brewery to chat science over a cold one. The events are geared toward a general audience – all are welcome and no experience is necessary!
This week's event features Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman, a professor in MIT’s Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. As a NASA astronaut from 1978 to 1997, Dr. Hoffman made five space flights, becoming the first astronaut to log 1000 hours of flight time aboard the Space Shuttle. He has performed four spacewalks, including the first unplanned, contingency spacewalk in NASA’s history and the initial repair/rescue mission for the Hubble Space Telescope. Dr. Hoffman has helped develop and carry out tests of advanced high-pressure space suit designs, as well as new tools and procedures needed for the assembly of the International Space Station.
Following his astronaut career, Dr. Hoffman joined the MIT faculty, where he teaches courses on space operations and space systems design. His primary research interests are in improving the technology of space suits and designing innovative space systems for human and robotic space exploration. He is the Deputy Principal Investigator of an experiment on NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, which will for the first time produce oxygen from extraterrestrial material, a critical step in the future of human space exploration. In 2007, Dr. Hoffman was elected to the US Astronaut Hall of Fame.
