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Astronauts lectured at KTH

In September 2015 nearly one hundred astronauts visited KTH for the yearly ASE congress. The theme for the congress was "Inspired by space" and that's what you will be listening to the astronauts and KTH researchers in the filmed sessions. Use the hashtag #ASE28 if you are curious to see more.

ASE Planatery Congress XXVIII – ASE/IAF Technical Session 1 "Advances in European Space Exploration"

Co-Chairmen:
Cristian Bank - Chairman, human spaceflight committee, IAF
John-David Bartoe - Astronaut; executive committee, ASE

Speakers:
Jean-Jacques Dordain - Advisor to the president of CNES
Gerhard Thiele - Astronaut; human spaceflight and operations strategic planning and outreach office, ESA
Patrik Sundblad - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Andrea Accomazzo - Rosetta flight director, ESA

Organizer:
John-David Bartoe - Executive committee, ASE

ASE Planatery Congress XXVIII -Technical Session 2 "Space Research: ISS and Exploration Updates"

Co-Chairmen:
Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar – Astronaut, ph.d. NAE USA
Professor Katja Grillner – Dean of faculty at KTH Sweden

Introduction to Exploration Technical Challenges and a greeting from ISS
with Year-Long Crew: Astronaut Scott Kelly and Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko
Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar

panel 1: space research – from iss/leo to exploration
The Medical Challenges to Long Duration Spaceflight and US Research Focus
Dr. Tom Marshburn 
– Former NASA flight surgeon and NASA astronaut
Dr. Chiaki Muka – JAXA astronaut

panel 2: space research – a view from sweden
What we know about the Universe Today
Dr. Katherine Freese 
– Director of Nordita, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics

Quick Looks:
“Remote sensing” – Yifang Ban – Professor, geoinformatics, KTH
“Astroparticle physics/astrophysics” – Mark Pearce – Professor, physics, KTH
“MMS mission” – Per-Arne Lindqvist – Researcher, KTH
“Geodesy” – Anna Jensen – Professor, geodesy and GNSS, KTH
“Working on Venus” – Mikael Östling – Professor, solid state electronics, KTH
“KTH student satellite” – Sven Grahn – Former technical director of SSC

Q&A and Summation

ASE Planatery Congress XXVIII - Technical Session 3 EVA: 50 Years and the Future

Co-Chairmen:
Michael Lopez-Alegria – Astronaut, USA
Alexei Leonov – Cosmonaut, Russia

Speakers:
Luca Parmitano – Astronaut, ESA
Oleg Kotov – Cosmonaut, Russia
Bruce McCandless – Astronaut, USA
Soichi Noguchi – Astronaut, Japan
Carl Walz – Astronaut, USA
Aleksej Leonov – Cosmonaut, Russia

ASE Planetary Congress XXVIII - videos from UR Samtiden

The ASE Planetary Congress XXVIII in Septemeber 2015 when more than 100 astronauts visited KTH was filmed by UR Samtiden and a large number of presentations and discussions are now available online on their website. 

Page responsible:Ceona Lindstein
Belongs to: KTH Space Center
Last changed: Nov 16, 2016