Intrepid Museum
Virtual Astronomy Live
Discussing NASA’s Artemis 1 Launch
Past EVENT
Thursday, Jan 20th, 2022
5:00 PM EST
Artemis 1 is a planned un-crewed test flight for NASA's Artemis program. It is the first flight of the agency's Space Launch System super heavy-lift launch vehicle and the first flight of the Orion MPCV. Artemis 1 is expected to launch February 2022. Hear from Comm Systems Project Manager, Yves Lamothe as he takes us on a behind the scenes look at the mission and how they are preparing for the launch next month.
A 5:00pm pre-show will take place with an interactive talk from an Intrepid Museum Educator.
The event is hosted and co-produced by John “Das” Galloway, founder of the Kerbal Space Academy.
This program is supported through a NASA Cooperative Agreement awarded to the New York Space Grant Consortium.
Participants
Yves Lamothe
NASA Lead Systems Engineer
Yves Lamothe currently serves as the Communications Element Integration Team (EIT) Project Manager for the Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Command Control and Communication (C3) Division. In this capacity, Yves provides team leadership to the EGS Communications EIT for the design, development, operations and sustaining of all communications systems across the Kennedy Space Center in support of EGS.
Summer Ash
Moderator
Summer Ash has been both a rocket scientist and an astrophysicist. She is a freelance science writer and communicator whose work has been published in The Atlantic, NBC News, Smithsonian, Now.Space, Scientific American, Slate, and Nautilus.
John “Das”Galloway
Host and Producer
“Das” is a science outreach communicator who specializes in live, interactive video content. He is the creator of the Kerbal Space Academy, where he uses video games as a tool to start science and engineering conversations with viewers of all ages, and VECTORS Virtual Field Trips, which brings real-time interactive video to museums, events, and historical locations. “Das” also serves as a host and producer for NASASpaceflight.com.
Produced by Intrepid Museum in partnership with Kerbal Space Academy and Egress Productions, LLC.