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Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM

photo of crew training at KSC

Monday, March 30, 2015 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium

Michael Soluri

"Infinite Worlds: NASA in Photographs"

ABSTRACT -- The Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting our blue dot of a water world for 25 years. It's engineering and scientific ability in capturing the ancient light of the universe has been the result of 5 shuttle based up-grade service missions. My presentation visually highlights the meaning I discovered during my three year photographic journey during STS125 - SM4, the historic and last of the Hubble servicing missions. From 2007 through 2009 I photographed at GSFC, as well as at JSC and KSC where I sought the humanity of the labor force at work, the astronaut crew in training and the craft and art of the Hubble EVA tools. In addition, I provided the crew a series of photo seminars on how to make more visual photographs while in space. The essence of this work, my presentation and the narrative of my book reveals evidence of human and robotic spaceflight on Earth and in space ...

photo of astronaut John Grunsfeld in space suit

SPEAKER -- Michael Soluri is a New York City-based documentary photographer, speaker and the author of Infinite Worlds (Simon & Schuster). His photography has appeared in numerous American, European, and Brazilian print and online publications such as Time, Discover, Air & Space, NPR, Family Circle, Mother Earth News, Wired UK, Grazia, Amica, Vogue Brasil, and Claudia. As a videographer, he has produced and directed business to business communication projects for corporations like Forbes, Merck Pharmaceutical, Merrill lynch, Loral Space & Communications and Paragon Space Development among others. Soluri has appeared on MSNBC's "The Cycle," interviewed by Dr. David Livingston for the online radio "Space Show", spoken at the National Air & Space Museum with astronaut John Grunsfeld, in conversation with broadcast journalist Miles O'Brien at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, in Chicago at the Museum of Science & Industry, at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and on April 11th at the Smithsonian Institute. Infinite Worlds has been cited in Quest magazine, Air & Space, Discover, Spaceflight Insider, Space Collect among others. Images from Infinite Worlds are currently being exhibited in "Outside the Spacecraft: 50 years of EVA" at the National Air & Space Museum, "Hubble@25" at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York and the space shuttle Atlantis pavilion at the Kennedy Space Center. Since 2005 he been documenting the people and places of the New Horizons Pluto mission at GSFC, JHU APL, Lowell Observatory, and at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.


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