Mr. Daniel S. Goldin

Dr. Rhea Seddon

Exploring Space

Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, Tenn.
March 27-28, 2000       

This event is free and open to students and the public; no registration is required. For a parking permit, please contact the Campus Police (931)372-3234, at the University Services Building on the corner of 9th and Dixie.

Media Contact: Monica Greppin, (931)372-3214

Schedule of Events

Symposium Highlights

This year the Stonecipher Symposium proudly hosts prominent keynote speakers Mr. Daniel S. Goldin, NASA Administrator and Dr. Rhea Seddon, Assistant Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Medical Group and former NASA Astronaut.  Presentations by authors Robert Zubrin, Andrew Chaikin and Howard McCurdy, whose works about the U.S. space program have been critically acclaimed, will also be featured.  The symposium will include a panel discussion about research opportunities given by NASA representatives and TTU faculty members.  The Space Transportation Directorate of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center will provide a panel discussion as well.   Dr. Dale Quattrochi, Senior Scientist with NASA Global Hydrology and Climate Center, will deliver an address. 

In its third year, the Stonecipher Symposium continues to bring together students, scholars and representatives from industry, media,
government and the community.  The annual symposium is named for and partially funded by Harry Stonecipher, Chief Operating Officer of the Boeing Company and a physics graduate of Tennessee Tech University.  His sponsorship is provided through the Terry Martin Stonecipher Fund for the Arts and Sciences, which he established in honor of his son.  

Keynote speakers     

• Mr. Daniel S. Goldin
  NASA Administrator for 7 years   
  "The Technology Triangle and the Future of the Space Program"
  
  
• Dr. Rhea Seddon
  Assistant Chief Medical Officer of the Vanderbilt Medical Group and former NASA Astronaut
  "Space Exploration and American Culture:  An Astronaut's Perspective"
  

Other events

• Dr. Howard McCurdy on "Imagination and the U.S. Space Program: Motivating Visions,
  Past and Future"
  
  Author of several books, including Space and the American Imagination and Inside NASA:  High Technology and Organizational Change
  in the U.S. Space Program; Co-editor of Space Flight; Professor, American University, Washington DC
  
  

• Mr. Andrew Chaikin on "The Apollo Experience"

Executive Editor for "Space and Science," and Space.com, and acclaimed author of A Man on The Moon, the basis for
the Tom Hanks' Emmy Award winning HBO mini-series, "From the Earth to the Moon"


• Dr. Robert Zubrin on "Mars Direct:  Humans to the Red Planet within a Decade"
  
  President of Pioneer Astronautics; Principal author of the "Mars Direct" plan; Author of The Case for Mars:  The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must; Chairperson of the Executive Committee to the National Space Society
  

• Dr. Dale Quattrochi on "Looking at the Earth with NASA's Space Tools:  A Different View
  of the Urban Environment"
  

Senior Scientist with NASA's Global Hydrology and Climate Center at Marshall Space Flight Center


• Panel discussion by members of the NASA Space Transportation Directorate
  at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center on "Bridging the Future---Space Station and Beyond"
  
  Panel includes Dennis Smith, Manager of the Program Planning and Development Office; George Schmidt, Deputy Manager of the Propulsion Research Office; Steve Richards, Manager of the International Space Station Propulsion Module Project Office;
  and Shar Hendrick, Manager of Government and Community Relations Department, as panel moderator.
  
  
• Panel discussion by TTU Faculty and NASA
  

Panel discussion about research opportunities given by NASA representatives and TTU faculty who have worked for NASA.   Panel includes Dr. Jim Dowdy, Technology Transfer Research Officer, Technology Transfer Department, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center;
Dr. Sam Han, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Dr. Christopher Wilson, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and Mr. Phillip Allen, Mechanical Engineering master's student. 


• Book sales and signing with Mr. Andrew Chaikin, Dr. Howard McCurdy and Dr. Robert Zubrin
  
  
• Student Essay Contest Winner Presentations
  

For more information about the symposium:

Dennis George, dgeorge@tntech.edu
phone: (931)372-3507 / fax: (931)372-6346
Stonecipher Symposium on Technology, Communication & Culture
Tennessee Technological University
Box 5033 Cookeville, TN 38505

Media Contact: Monica Greppin, (931)372-3214

Area accommodations

Directions to the symposium

Tennessee Technological University Sponsors:
The Terry Martin Stonecipher Fund of the College of Arts and Sciences;
the College of Engineering
the Center for the Management, Utilization & Protection of Water Resources;
the Center for Manufacturing Research;
the TTU General Education Fund
and the Commission on the Status of Women

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Last updated: March 22, 2000

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