Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM
Monday, April 2, 2007 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium
Fred Guterl
"The Race to Mars"
ABSTRACT -- NASA isn't the only space agency with plans to send humans to the Moon and Mars. ESA has embarked on its plans to produce a crew vehicle from its new space cargo vehicle. Simultaneously, they are also negotiating with Russia to collaborate on its Clipper space plane. Meanwhile, the ESA Council has recently approved the Aurora program, a plan for a succession of increasingly bold expeditions, including a Mars sample return mission, a manned moon trip and a manned voyage to Mars in 2033. This talk will present an overview of these plans and how it is compatible or competes with NASA's plans.
SPEAKER -- Fred Guterl is a Senior Editor at Newsweek International and directs the magazine's coverage of science, technology, health, medicine and the environment. He's written or edited stories on global warming, the MIR space station and Microsoft's research labs and edited double issues on energy and ten inventions that will change the world, all for the international edition; for the domestic edition he's written stories on what Freud got right, the nerds of weather and monsters on the beach. Guterl joined Newsweek in July 2000 from IBM, where he worked briefly in the corporate communications dept. Before that, he was an editor at Discover magazine and at IEEE Spectrum. He has also worked as a freelance correspondent based in London. In 1998 he won the science journalism award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for best magazine article ("Riddles in the Sand," which appeared in Discover). In 2000 he shared a citation from the Overseas Press Club for the article "The Wasteland" on Russia's plan to accept the world's nuclear waste. Guterl holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester and has taught science writing at Princeton University. He lives in Montclair, NJ with his wife and two children.