Goddard Engineering Colloquium Series

Spring and Summer 2021 Schedule

Date in first column; Title link in second; speaker in third.
Date	Topic	Speaker
January 25	LunaNet	David Israel NASA-GSFC
February 22	Are We Close to Plug and Play Robots?	Alan Brown Engineering author
March 22	Light Years Ahead: The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer	Robert Wills
March 29	Thermal Engineering for Apollo	Harry "Hank" Rotter NASA (retired)
April 19	Dragonfly : A Relocatable Rotorcraft Lander for Titan Link to video of Dragonfly talk	Ralph Lorenz JHU Applied Physics Lab
May 10	Development of the SUBLIME MET Seismometer for Future Lunar Missions	Terry Hurford NASA-GSFC
May 24	The LightSail 2 Solar Sailing Mission	Bruce Betts The Planetary Society
June 7	Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War Link to video of Mercury Rising Lecture	Jeff Shesol
Tuesday June 22	The Enhanced State of Lens-based Eye Surgery	Jonathan Solomon Solomon Eye Associates University of Maryland, School of Medicine
July 12	Q&A: Goddard and a Novelist: Stories I Have Set in Your Wonderful Facility	William Forstchen author
July 19	Why are there so many humanoids on Star Trek? An evolutionary perspective	Mohamed Noor Duke University
July 26	Moving Lighthouses and Other Large Structures	Gabriel Matyiko Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Team
August 2	How to Build a Spaceship	Julian Guthrie Jounalist

Notice: Nothing appearing in these pages is to be construed as an endorsement by NASA.
Engineering Colloquium home page: https://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/

All colloquia are held at 3:30 p. m. on Mondays in either the Building 3 Auditorium or the Building 8 Auditorium.