1961/1981: Key Moments in Human Spaceflight
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Location: NASA Headquarters, James E. Webb Auditorium.NASA Headquarters is located at: 300 E Street S.W., Washington, D.C. (between 3rd and 4th Streets)
Tuesday - April 26, 2011
| 8:45 – 9:30 | Registration |
| 9:30 | Welcome: Charles F. Bolden, Jr. (NASA Administrator) |
| 9:45 | Keynote Speech: Lessons from the Last Frontier – Michael F. Robinson (University of Hartford) |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Exploration |
| Moderator: Stephen J. Garber (NASA) | |
| When was the Space Age? – Alexander C.T. Geppert (Freie Universitat Berlin) | |
| The Rise (1961) and Fall and Rise Again (1981) of America’s “Space Frontier” – James Spiller (The College at Brockport) | |
| Exploration and Discovery in Science and Human Spaceflight – Steve Dick (Former NASA Chief Historian) | |
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch Break |
| 1:30 – 3:00 | 1961: Human Spaceflight in the Heroic Era |
| Moderator: Michael Neufeld (National Air and Space Museum) | |
| Setting the Scene for Human Spaceflights: Men Into Space and The Man and the Challenge - Margaret A. Weitekamp (National Air and Space Museum) | |
| The 50th Jubilee: Yuri Gagarin in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Imagination – Andrew Jenks (California State University, Long Beach) | |
| Pursuit of an Illusion? JFK and U.S.-Soviet Cooperation in Missions to the Moon – John M. Logsdon (George Washington University) | |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Break |
| 3:30 – 5:00 | Images of Human Spacefarers |
| Moderator: Paul Ceruzzi (National Air and Space Museum) | |
| 1961-1981: A Comparative Study of Human and Robotic Spaceflight as Represented in Industrial Advertising – Megan Prelinger (Independent Scholar) | |
| Astronauts and Cosmonauts in Frenchmen: Understanding Space Travel Through The Popular Weekly Paris-Match – Guillaume de Syon (Albright College) | |
| They May Remake Our Image of Mankind: Representations of Cosmonauts and Astronauts in Soviet and American Space Propaganda, 1961-1981 – Trevor Rockwell (University of Alberta) | |
Wednesday - April 27, 2011
| 9:15 – 10:00 | Keynote Speech: The Cold War, 1961-1981 – George C. Herring (University of Kentucky) |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | 1981: Human Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era |
| Moderator: Alan Ladwig (NASA) | |
| The Creature that Wouldn’t Die: Spaceplane 1961/1981 – Matthew H. Hersch (University of Southern California) | |
| Explorers We? Prospects for Public Participation in Human Space Flight during the Space Shuttle Development Era – Amy Kaminski (NASA) | |
| Bringing Spaceflight Down to Earth: The IMAX Films Experience - Valerie Neal (National Air and Space Museum) | |
| 11:30 – 1:00 | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 – 2:30 | International Aspirations |
| Moderator: William P. Barry (NASA) | |
| Finding Your Way to Orbit: History, Politics and Institutions’ Role in Initiating Human Space Flight - Roger Handberg (University of Central Florida) | |
| China and Human Spaceflight – Dean Cheng (The Heritage Foundation) | |
| India's Ambitions in Human Space Flight: History, Challenges and Opportunities – Ashok Maharaj (Georgia Tech) | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Break |
| 3:00 – 4:30 | Round Table on Future Research Themes |
| Moderator: Roger D. Launius (National Air and Space Museum) | |
| Participants: | |
| Beth L. O’Leary (New Mexico State University) – material culture Lisa Westwood (Chico State University) – avenues of preservation David H. Onkst (American University) – labor Erinn McComb (Mississippi State University) – gender De Witt Kilgore (Indiana University) – race Margaret L. Dean (University of Tennessee) – literature |
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