| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| September 3 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
| September 10 Building 3 Auditorium |
Wallops Flight Facility as a Satellite Launch Facility | Bruce Underwood NASA-GSFC-WFF |
| September 17 Building 3 Auditorium |
Prospecting the Asteroids | Tom Jones NASA (retired) |
| September 24 Building 3 Auditorium |
From Concept to the Race Track in Less Than a Year | Brad Passe & Stephen Chung, of the Terps Racing Team University of Maryland |
| October 1 Building 3 Auditorium |
Finding the Missing Moon Rocks | Joe Gutheinz, Jr Guthienz Law Firm LLP; NASA (retired) |
| October 8 | No Colloquium, holiday | |
| October 15 Building 3 Auditorium |
Finding the Missing Memristor: Technology and Drama | Stanley Williams Hewlett-Packard Labs |
| October 22 Building 3 Auditorium |
Thunder Over Huntsville: Memories of Saturn, Apollo, and the Moon | Jesco von Puttkamer NASA |
| October 29 Building 3 Auditorium |
Space Weather and What NASA Is Doing About It
Rescheduled for February 11, 2013. |
Antti Pulkkinen NASA-GSFC & Catholic University of America |
| November 5 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Inventor's Pencil: Leonardo, Edison, and the Sketching Engineer | Robert Friedel University of Maryland |
| November 12 |
No Colloquium; Holiday | |
| November 19 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Linotype Machine | Doug Wilson Independent Filmmaker |
| November 26 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Wonderful Future That Never Was | Gregory Benford University of California |
| December 3 Building 3 Auditorium |
To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure | Henry Petroski Duke University |
| December 10 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Engineering Processes used for Verification on the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi - NPOESS Preparatory Project (S-NPP); or, Insights into Strategic Uses of Similarity and Faith-Based Verification along with an Uphill Battle against Augustine's Laws | Bruce Guenther NASA-GSFC |
| December 17 | Beryllium Telescopes for Space Lidar | John Wood NASA-GSFC |
| December 24 | No Colloquium |
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