— WSU Aerospace Engineering Assistant Professor Atri Dutta will present his talk, How to Fly a Spacecraft, on Thursday, February 28, at 1:00 pm in 264 RSC. His talk is part of the WSI's Space Exploration Lecture Series.
— According to a new paper published by Jonathan Wilks and Mark Schneegurt of WSU's Biological Sciences Department, certain low-temperature solutions possibly occurring on Mars and elsewhere in the solar system are capable of supporting bacterial growth.
— On Thursday, January 31, at 3:30 pm in 100 LH, Jim Remar (CEO of the Cosmosphere) will give a talk discussing the Cosmosphere's restoration work for NASA in preparation for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.
— A group of WSU Honors students recently published their article, "The Need for Strict Regulation of Asteroid Mining", in the European Space Policy Institute's Voices from the Space Community series.
— Wichita State Alumnus and NASA JPL Mission Control Engineering Michael Staab will speak about his work on the NASA Insight Mission on Monday, November 26, from 12 to 2 ppm at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS.
— The WSI is pleased to announce the start of a new lectures series on space exploration. The inaugural talk will be given by WSI Coordinator James Schwartz. Dr. Schwartz will speak on policy and ethical issues related to space mining.
— Suwat Sreesawet and Atri Dutta (Aerospace Engineering) have published new research on low-thrust orbit-raising trajectories in the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.
— WSU, in collaboration with NASA, the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop, and the Ad Astra Kansas Foundation, will host the Sixth Interstellar Symposium and Interstellar Propulsion Workshop November 10-15 of 2019.
— In a forthcoming International Journal of Astrobiology paper titled "Where No Planetary Protection Policy Has Gone Before," James S.J. Schwartz (Philosophy) discusses the ethical basis for planetary protection policies.
