Goddard Engineering Colloquia

Fall 2004 Schedule

All colloquia are held at 3:30 p. m. on Mondays in either the Building 3 Auditorium or the Building 8 Auditorium, as indicated below. Any changes in the schedule will be indicated on this page with the minimum possible delay.

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**Current series schedule**
Date	Topic	Speaker
September 6	No Colloquium (holiday)
September 13 Building 3 Auditorium	The Mars Exploration Rovers Annual Schneebaum Award Ceremony and Lecture	Jennifer Trosper Jet Propulsion Laboratory
September 20 Building 3 Auditorium	The International Dimension of the New Space Initiative	Roald Sagdeev University of Maryland
September 27 Building 3 Auditorium	An Overview of NASA's Solar Sail Project	Greg Garbe Marshall Space Flight Center
October 4 Building 3 Auditorium	VASIMR: Mars in Four Months	Franklin Chang-Diaz NASA/JSC
October 11	No Colloquium (holiday)
October 18 Building 3 Auditorium	The Entrepreneurial Space Launch Business: A User's Guide	Joan Horvath Takeoff Technologies, LLC
October 25 Building 3 Auditorium	The Book Nobody Read	Owen Gingerich Harvard University
November 1 Building 3 Auditorium	Ragpickers, Bottle Caps, and Space Trash	Susan Strasser University of Delaware
November 8 Building 3 Auditorium	Von Braun, Collier's and Disney: Selling Space in the 1950s	Michael Neufeld National Air and Space Museum
November 15 Building 3 Auditorium	The Measure of the World	Ken Alder Northwestern University
November 22 Building 8 Auditorium [NOTE room change]	The Other Moon Landings: A Soviet Triumph in the Shadow of Apollo	Andrew Chaikin Author and Lecturer
November 29 Building 8 Auditorium [NOTE room change]	The Echo Balloon Satellites	Ronald Muller QSS Group, Inc.
December 6 Building 3 Auditorium	Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World	Glenn Adamson The Chipstone Foundation and The Milwaukee Art Museum
December 13 Building 3 Auditorium	The Composite Infrared Spectrometer on Cassini	Don Jennings GSFC

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