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Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM

Monday, September 20, 2004 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium

Roald Sagdeev

"The International Dimension of the New Space Initiative"

ABSTRACT -- Lessons from ISS cooperation: Indispensable experience of building together large scale project -- a stepping stone to the next level in cooperation extension and a model for other areas of cooperation. Next potential areas: Mars/Moon? Non-US efforts on Mars/Moon (current and planned). Coordination vs. Cooperation (Pro- and Con-). Choice of acceptable level of Iinterdependence (likely gains and potential risks). Robotic vs. Manned Scenarios.

SPEAKER -- Roald Sagdeev is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and Director of SilkSat, a telecommunications project utilizing small satellites. Dr. Sagdeev is also Director Emeritus of the Space Research Institute, the Moscow-based center of the Russian space exploration program. Elected to the Supreme Soviet in 1987, he served as a summit advisor to Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Eduard Shevardnadze at three summits: Geneva (1985), Washington (1987) and Moscow (1988). He also served as an advisor to Gorbachev on issues related to civilian space and space-based weapons systems. From 1987-1991, he served as a deputy in the USSR's Congress of People's Deputies, pushing a radical reform agenda. Dr. Sagdeev has also received honorary degrees from many prestigious universities, including UCLA, New York University, the University of Michigan, Toulouse University (France), and The Technical University of Graz (Austria).




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